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Monday, August 26, 2019

Could we see a teacher's strike this year?

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[ VIDEO ] I've been reading the headlines about this for a while, we just elected a new mayor back in April and we might get a strike ju...
Friday, August 23, 2019

CPS dropout rate at an all-time low....

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According to this recent Sun-Times article : A smaller percentage of Chicago high school students dropped out last year than ever before, th...
Thursday, August 22, 2019

#tbt Decision at 83rd Street

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[ VIDEO ] Last year at The Sixth Ward I posted this above video from a YouTube channel that refers to itself as Fuzzy Memories - which mos...
Tuesday, August 20, 2019

WBEZ: 5 Things To Know About Chicago Public Schools’ Budget

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WBEZ : Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPS CEO Janice Jackson heralded the new mayor’s first proposed budget for the school district earlie...
Thursday, August 8, 2019

#tbt Riding Amtrak through the south side

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Back in 2014, I took a quick trip during the holiday season to Memphis, Tennessee aboard Amtrak's City of New Orleans train and shot vid...
Monday, August 5, 2019

WBEZ: Hundreds Of Chicago Schools Go Without Teachers And Subs — Mostly In Schools Serving Black Students

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For right now we hit the education beat : This is the stark reality in Chicago Public Schools. Last school year, almost a third of 520 distr...
Friday, August 2, 2019

Back to school for ADULTS

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You might have seen this at The Sixth Ward with the flyer below from a friend of the blog Zack Issacs. If you want to know how to start on ...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Want to do a Pullman strike tour?

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Credit: The Chicago Neighborhoods I was awfully slow in sharing this. On July 13, 2019 there was a tour in Pullman related to the 125th anni...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

The site of the former Halsted Indoor Mall #tbt

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I snapped these shots of the site of the former shopping center on 115th & Halsted  Michigan during the summer of 2014. I never release...