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Chicago overnight report
Tribune reporterA wrap-up of news from the Tribune's breaking news desk. • A Chicago police officer was shot in the leg by a fellow officer who had fired at a charging dog in the Englewood neighborhood Monday night, authorities said. Read more • A 41-year-old...Tags: Englewood, Shootings
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Chicago Public Schools raises questions with $162 million capital budget
Chicago Public Schools released a proposed $162 million capital budget for its 2014 fiscal year Wednesday that officials said will focus only on the "most urgent needs and educational facilities," in light of a projected $1 billion budget deficit. The...
Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Politics, Public Finance, Government Debt
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Brooks-Payton game on, but rescheduled again
The baseball game between Walter Payton College Preparatory High School and Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy was rescheduled again, this time for May 11. Last weekend, Payton's baseball team forfeited the originally scheduled game. Payton'...
Tags: College Baseball, Walter Payton, Sports, Baseball
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Mom's final words to son, 15: 'My baby who I loved so dear'
Tribune reporterThere were no dignitaries or elected officials at Cornelius “Cornbread” German’s funeral. No activists, no high-profile clergy. Instead, dozens of teenagers dressed more for a picnic than a somber occasion crowded the pews inside...Tags: Kenwood, Hadiya Pendleton, Murder, Barack Obama
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Voice of the People, May. 02
Postpone school closures The proposal to close 54 Chicago Public Schools is dangerous and ill-conceived. It will damage the schools it closes and the schools that receive students from the closed schools. In defending the closings, CPS made many...Tags: Sugar Grove, Teachers, Illinois General Assembly, School Examinations, Students
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CPS lunchroom workers call for end to frozen meals
Dozens of Chicago Public Schools food service workers rallied Tuesday afternoon to call for an end to quickly prepared frozen meals that can be readied in smaller kitchens by fewer workers. Linda Green, a CPS manager of several South Side lunchrooms,...
Tags: Food Industry
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High-quality preschool program produces long-term economic payoff
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Embargoed for Release Friday, February 4, 2011 12:01 a.m. Contact: Robert Bock or Marianne Glass Miller 301-496-5133 High-quality preschool program produces long-term...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Early Learning, National Institutes of Health, Teachers, Medical Research
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Chicago center brings meditative mindset to combating youth violence
Most of the CeaseFire interrupters sat up in their chairs and closed their eyes, following the quiet direction of the small man in yellow and orange robes at the head of the conference table. "Allow your mind to feel the way you feel," Sakyong Mipham...
Tags: Religious Conflicts, U.S. Congress, Chicago Loop, Religion and Belief, Toni Preckwinkle
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CPS: No more assessment tests for youngest students this school year
Chicago Public Schools says it's taking a closer look at testing, for now removing assessment tests for kindergartners and first-graders this school year. Schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett said this comes after months of outreach to parents,...
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning
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My challenge to Karen Lewis
A year ago Chicago teachers, clinicians, paraprofessionals and parents hoped that their strength in numbers and unity would yield the legislative action and contract settlement needed to remedy the problems teachers face in the classroom —...
Tags: Teachers, School Examinations, Karen Lewis, Chicago Charter Schools, Career and Workplace
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School closings occupy CPS board meeting
As Chicago Public Schools embarks on closing dozens of schools, a third-grader from Garvey Elementary School on Wednesday summed up how many parents, educators and other students feel about the shutdowns. Speaking at the monthly Board of Education...
Tags: Teachers, School Examinations, Karen Lewis, Gage Park, Students
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Voice of the People, Apr. 26
In praise of stuff Every women's magazine I pick up has an article on de-cluttering. Every home I see pictured has been staged for purchase, not arranged for living. I get wedding invitations that recommend gift cards, not china or silver. I recently...Tags: Schools, Teachers, Education, School Examinations, Students
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