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After vote, school closings plan must race clock
Chicago Public Schools has just three months to oversee Mayor Rahm Emanuel's massive school closing plan, a process laden with logistical challenges that could prove every bit as difficult for the system as the months leading up to last week's vote. Here...Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, House Building, Separation of Church and State, Teaching and Learning, Elections
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U.S. Education Secretary Talks School Safety In Hartford
The Hartford Courant— Local students gathered in a town hall meeting Friday asked U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan his opinion of armed guards in schools, how much standardized testing is too much, and a long list of school security issues. "The...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Arne Duncan, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Elizabeth Esty
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Payton, Brooks finally play ball in show of solidarity
Tribune reporterAlberto Reyes looked across the well-kept field at Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep during pregame warm-up drills Saturday evening and declared it a beautiful place for a baseball game. Two weeks after their originally scheduled game, players and coaches...Tags: College Baseball, Baseball, Walter Payton, Sports, High School Sports
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Chicago-area pension funding gap jumps to $32 billion: report
ReutersThe Chicago-based Civic Federation said Tuesday the funding gap for 10 Chicago-area public pension systems widened by 16.7 percent to $32 billion in fiscal 2011 from the year, warning of service cuts or tax hikes to bridge the gap. The civic watchdog...Tags: Chicago Park District, Chicago Mayor, Illinois General Assembly, Politics, Finance
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CPS employee accused of pushing student down stairs
Tribune reporterChicago Public Schools has removed a Dunbar Vocational Career Academy employee from his position after a video posted online appears to show him pushing a female student down a flight of stairs. The 16-year-old student’s family released a statement...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Students
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Man charged with murder 4 years after teen killed in SUV wreck
Tribune reporterA Southwest Side man has been charged in the 2009 death of a 16-year-old boy ejected from an SUV when it was rammed by a van during a chase, prosecutors said. Hugo “Juicy” Ocon, 30, has been charged with first-degree murder in the slaying...Tags: Judges, Justice System, Punishment, Murder, Lawyers
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Voice of the People, May. 26
Praising teachers Television and other news sources are once again telling the story of heroic teachers giving everything, including their lives, to save the children they spend so much time with each day. This is definitely not what they signed up for,...Tags: School Examinations, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Clearwater (Pinellas, Florida), Chicago Tribune
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CPS suspends employee seen pushing student in video
Chicago Public Schools has removed a Dunbar Vocational Career Academy employee from his job after a video was posted online that appears to show him pushing a female student down a flight of stairs. The 16-year-old student's family released a statement...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Students
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Hearing set on lawsuits over CPS closings
A day after the controversial Chicago Board of Education vote to shut 49 elementary schools, a federal judge on Thursday scheduled a four-day hearing in July on two lawsuits that seek to halt the closings. The hearing before U.S. District Judge John Lee...
Tags: Justice System, Separation of Church and State, Judges, Trials, Court Preliminary
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School closings disappoint many aldermen
Tribune reportersAfter the Chicago School Board meeting Wednesday, many of the aldermen who argued unsuccessfully to keep schools in their wards open said they were disappointed with the process. Ald. Deborah Graham, 29th, said she went to testify at the school board...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Arne Duncan, Deborah Graham, Ameya Pawar, Walter Burnett, Jr.
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Hearing set in lawsuits over Chicago Public Schools closings
Tribune reporterA day after the controversial Chicago Board of Education vote to shut down 50 schools, a federal judge today scheduled a four-day hearing in July to decide whether to halt the closures. The hearing before U.S. District Judge John Lee is likely to include...Tags: Justice System, Judges, Separation of Church and State, Trials, Court Preliminary
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Got diet milk?
In the face of troubling childhood obesity rates and what it sees as low milk consumption rates, the dairy industry says it has a solution: Offer kids flavored milk that uses low-calorie artificial sweeteners. The only problem, industry...
Tags: Weight, Health and Safety at School, Food and Drug Administration, Consumers, Obesity
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