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Friday, August 30, 2013

VIDEO: Don't Like the Public School Closings? Put Up or Shut Up.

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[ VIDEO ] School closings have been a hot topic lately and the school year has just started. A longtime YouTube favorite "artist" ...
Thursday, August 8, 2013

"Curators of Dixon School" - got notice from a local TV station

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[ VIDEO ] Last year I mentioned a documentary film - Curators of Dixon School - in passing as it involved a south side elementary school o...
Wednesday, August 7, 2013

WBEZ: Chicago scales back on standardized testing

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CPS will eliminate 15 out of the 25 standardized test that students must take between KG and 12th grades. What tests were they taking? I th...
Monday, July 29, 2013

August 3, 2013 - 17th Legislative District Family Wellness Heath Fair and Back to School

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Family Wellness Health Fair State Representative Elgie Sims (D-Chicago) in partnership with state Senator Donne E. Trotter, state Repres...
Monday, April 1, 2013

Ward Room: Why Elites Don't Think Public Schools Important To City's Future

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I find this article from our local NBC affiliate quite depressing. It's an opinion, but it's quite sad that we see CPS graduates as...
Monday, March 4, 2013

Come see "The Curators of Dixon School"

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It will be shown on the west side at ICE Theater's Lawndale 10 cinemas on Wednesday far from both Bennett/Shedd and Dixon School on the ...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Chicago Mag: Can $86 Million Save a Neighborhood? with the elementary school angle

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Comer with his Revere Elementary friends in 2000 If only our schools had some type of generous benefactor as it appears that Paul Revere El...
Saturday, November 3, 2012

2 Investigators: Chicago Schools Flunk Food Inspections

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If I recall correctly Bennett nor Shedd has a kitchen, but it would be nice to know which schools were inspected and flunked. Whatever the s...
Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Brizard: Chicago schools need radical change

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Jean-Claude Brizard Jean-Claude Brizard wrote this editorial recently. Brizard had been the former CPS Chief Executive Office for 17 months...