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CPS chief forcing coaches to set better example
Barbara Byrd-Bennett still remembers how often her daughter, Nailah, quoted coaches of every sport growing up in New York. Nowadays, Byrd-Bennett frequently hears similar reverence repeated from her twin grandsons, who just started playing football....
Tags: Basketball, Schools, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Public Schools
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Penny Pritzker resigns from the Chicago school board
Billionaire Chicago businesswoman Penny Pritzker resigned from the Chicago Board of Education on Thursday. A spokeswoman for Pritzker declined to provide a reason for the resignation. Pritzker is being vetted as a potential candidate for U.S. Commerce...
Tags: Companies and Corporations, White House, Unions, John Kerry, Elections
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Schools chief Brizard, the mayor's human shield
Before there was a looming teachers strike and before the mayor had to go through Friday's charade of giving Chicago Public Schools frontman Jean-Claude Brizard a vote of confidence, the schoolmaster was engaging in social networking. Brizard got himself...
Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Chicago Public Schools, Garry McCarthy, Teaching and Learning, Rahm Emanuel
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How about spending this TV ad money on schools instead of spin?
Change of SubjectHe plays politics like the Hanson Brothers played hockey... Rich Miller on Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel The context here is the anti-union group Education Reform Now's reported $1 million TV ad buy in which Emanuel is seen doing a bit...... -
Whassamatter? Rahm got your tongue?
Change of SubjectThe passage below from today's story, Cleveland's charter school growth a cautionary tale for Chicago, is reminiscent of how Jean-Claude Brizard was told to stand mute during the news conference that announced his ill-fated appointment as Chicago... -
Weeks in review
Change of SubjectA roundup of state and local news-review and weekly political chat shows. Descriptions provided by the broadcast outlets in most cases: Chicago Newsroom CAN TV: Host Ken Davis is joined by teachers Kimberly Walls (Fulton Elementary School), David... -
Doing the math on the 'miracle' of Chicago's longer school day
Change of SubjectMy first thought: The recent agreement between Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union to add 477 elementary teachers to the payroll and therefore staff the new, longer school day without appreciably increasing the workload for existing... -
Is Supt. McCarthy being frank with us? Quite.
Change of SubjectFrom this year's news archives: June 15 : "Maybe (a roughly 35 percent increase in homicides so far over 2011) is a consequence of (disbanding the Chicago Police Dept. strike force), and I didn't anticipate it," McCarthy said in a...... -
Parent power
Change of SubjectUPDATED Story: Under pressure from parents groups opposed to a 7½-hour school day, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said today he is scaling back his proposal to a 7-hour day for public elementary schools next fall....CPS chief Jean-Claude Brizard said the mayor...... -
Our kind of guy to lead Chicago schools
Change of SubjectHey worrywarts, relax! Though Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel has picked an outsider to run the Chicago Public Schools, the trail of news clippings following him here suggests he'll fit right in. Can Rochester, N.Y., superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard (left) pad... -
An enthusiastic reception for schools chief Jean-Claude Brizard
Change of SubjectThis optimistic greeting to Jean-Claude Brizard, named earlier this week to head the Chicago Public Schools, is from the front page of the Rochester Teacher, a union newsletter, in December, 2007. It is by Adam Urbanski, long-time head of the...... -
Both sides now: Doing as Team Emanuel says, not as it does
Change of SubjectFriday's print column -- for an archive of news coverage on Brizard, visit Webliography: J.C. Brizard Team Rahm Emanuel was not happy with my Wednesday column, the one in which I gave voice to the critics of the mayor-elect's choice......
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