School Segregation Continues
Recent investigations by education reporters detail actions taken by Rahm Emanuel’s handpicked Board of Education that clearly further racial segregation in Chicago Public Schools. 
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Recent investigations by education reporters detail actions taken by Rahm Emanuel’s handpicked Board of Education that clearly further racial segregation in Chicago Public Schools.
Community Resources, Not More Incarceration
Chicago Police Department superintendent Garry McCarthy was fired by Mayor Emanuel last Tuesday, after protesters have been demanding it for months. Back in October, members of the Black Caucus of the city council demanded his replacement because crime is still…
When Hurricane Katrina Hit Chicago
Since mayoral control of Chicago’s public schools began in 1995, Mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel have unleashed a tsunami of charter schools and school closings upon the city with devastating results.
The Loveless Age of Schooling
…I realized I was not following my own advice in sharing my authentic voice with my students. How could I open the year without talking about my mission as an educator to bring love back into schooling? So the next morning I stood before parents and a classroom of third graders talking about love.
Phantoms Playing Double-Dutch: Why the Fight for Dyett is Bigger than One Chicago School Closing
They were gathered in the name of Dyett, the high school that the leaders of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced in 2012 would be shuttered at the end of 2015. This group of parents, community members, and students sat in the 95-degree heat to demand a meeting with the alderman, Will Burns. They wanted…
Recent investigations by education reporters detail actions taken by Rahm Emanuel’s handpicked Board of Education that clearly further racial segregation in Chicago Public Schools. Community Resources, Not More Incarceration
Chicago Police Department superintendent Garry McCarthy was fired by Mayor Emanuel last Tuesday, after protesters have been demanding it for months. Back in October, members of the Black Caucus of the city council demanded his replacement because crime is still… When Hurricane Katrina Hit Chicago
Since mayoral control of Chicago’s public schools began in 1995, Mayors Richard M. Daley and Rahm Emanuel have unleashed a tsunami of charter schools and school closings upon the city with devastating results. The Loveless Age of Schooling
…I realized I was not following my own advice in sharing my authentic voice with my students. How could I open the year without talking about my mission as an educator to bring love back into schooling? So the next morning I stood before parents and a classroom of third graders talking about love. Phantoms Playing Double-Dutch: Why the Fight for Dyett is Bigger than One Chicago School Closing
They were gathered in the name of Dyett, the high school that the leaders of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) announced in 2012 would be shuttered at the end of 2015. This group of parents, community members, and students sat in the 95-degree heat to demand a meeting with the alderman, Will Burns. They wanted…