The city of Chicago is among many urban areas facing school closures as a result of budget cuts and declining student population. This has parents concerned about their kids' safety as they will have to travel farther to get to school. Kenwood Oakland parent Jeanette Taylor reminds [...]
Journalist and All In host, Chris Hayes, has covered what is characterized as the "closing of under-utilized public schools" since he first took to the late night air. The broadcaster observes as many others have and do; Mayor Rahm Emanuel embraces entreprenuerial education reform and the billionaire [...]
A Big Grandiose Announcement! People of Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel thinks the city is "Too Broke To Keep [Chicago Public Schools] Open!" How will the tax dollars intended for Chicago Schools be used? The Mayor will build an Event Center [a Sports Stadium complete with exclusive shops [...]
Originally Published By Steven Yaccino. The New York Times. May 22, 2013 CHICAGO — Officials here in the third-largest district in the country voted Wednesday, after an emotional meeting, to close 49 public schools that they said were not being fully used. The decision, passed overwhelmingly by [...]
Republished by TruthOut. May 20, 2013 Jaisal Noor, TRNN Producer: In Chicago, hundreds of teachers, parents, and students have launched three days of marches to mark a final protest against plans to shutter 54 public schools. The march route includes the targeted schools, which are almost all [...]
Introductory Video; Please Join This March, Bryan and Karen To Save Our Communities and Neighborhood Schools To March for a day is not enough to Save Our Schools! Chicago parents march on. Children too fill the streets. Our babies know their schools and education is threatened, [...]
Officer Craig Davis, a former municipal policeman now with the Houston school district force, monitors a hallway at E.L. Furr High School in Houston, March 20, 2013. As school districts across the country consider placing more police officers inside schools, youth advocates and judges are concerned about [...]
By Noreen S. Ahmed-Ullah | Originally Published at Chicago Tribune May 16, 2013 The Chicago Teachers Union's decision to go to court to try to stop the city from closing 53 elementary schools, while not unexpected, makes clear that the Board of Education's vote on the proposal [...]
Photograph; Harlem Success Academy works hard to combat poverty — and get kids achieving at the same levels as their higher-income peers. The authors suggest this process is far more difficult than reformers believe it to be. By Prudence Carter , Kevin Welner | Originally Published at [...]
