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CPS Needs More Full-Time, Union, Certified School Nurses

Sarah Rothschild May 29, 2015 June 15, 2015Health, Schools

CPS is once again entertaining the idea of expanded outsourcing of nurses. This is not new, unfortunately – CPS has been working with nurse staffing agencies since the early 1990’s. The number of Certified School…

On Anita Alvarez’s New Drug Policy

Nathan Goldbaum April 29, 2015 June 8, 2015Health, Justice

BYP 100 protest marijuana prosecutions in 2014

As the report A Just Chicago notes, as an alternative to incarceration “drug treatment in the community is twice as effective at curtailing drug use, keeps students from having a parent in prison, and, in…