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School districts fail to address trauma

Pavlyn Jankov June 8, 2015 June 11, 2015Schools

A suit filed last month by students, parents and teachers of Compton Unified School District (CUSD) charges the school district for abrogating their responsibility to provide equal access to education for students who have experienced…

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Restorative Practices in Chicago

Carol Caref June 8, 2015 June 9, 2015Justice, Schools

The “School to Prison Pipeline” is a phrase employed to describe harsh measures taken by school administrators in response to student rule infractions. Students are too often subject to zero tolerance policies that mete out…

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Chicago’s Trauma and Lack of Trauma Centers

Sarah Rothschild May 29, 2015 June 23, 2015Health

The University of Chicago closed the only adult level-one trauma center on the South Side of the city 27 years ago and is finally considering reopening it, after years of protest, and after an Illinois…

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

Sarah Rothschild May 29, 2015 June 15, 2015Health, Schools
CPS Students Deserve Nurses

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…

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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…

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