Teachers, parents, and students have to decide if CPS can keep COVID-19 out of the classroom.
Tag: Barbara Byrd-Bennett
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Looking on the bright side
As the teens turn to the twenties, it’s a struggle to find a little cheer in the gloom.
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Alderman Ed Burke out as head of finance committee
Rahm has already chosen his replacement.
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The new public face of Rahm Emanuel’s school closing policies
The mayor brings in a new CPS CEO, Janice Jackson, just in time to shutter more schools.
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Rauner fires new communications team, says the ‘intensity of the battle’ against enemies ‘is going up,’ and other Chicago news
Also, two bars near Soldier Field are supporting Colin Kaepernick by refusing to show NFL games.
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CPS won’t say why it suspended activist teacher Sarah Chambers
But Chambers has been an outspoken opponent of cuts to special ed funding.
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Prosecutors want to put ex-CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett in prison for more than seven years, and other Chicago news
Also, the Chicago Mariachi Project is working to preserve Mexican culture among local students.
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What Trump could learn from Chicago’s kleptocracy
Politicians making a buck on their offices is nothing new here.
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While you weren’t watching: The 2015 Chicago politics year in review
Lots of stuff happened in Chicago even before Mayor Rahm released the Laquan McDonald video.
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The Tribune takes Mayor Emanuel to court over Byrd-Bennett e-mails
Answers to questions about Mayor Rahm’s role in the Byrd-Bennett scandal may be buried in the e-mails he’s fighting to keep secret.
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Mayor Rahm had his head in the sand when Barbara Byrd-Bennett set up her $23 million scam
Why couldn’t our public school watchdogs see what was staring them in the face?
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What happened to Rahm’s education dream team?
Tim Cawley’s departure means all but one of Emanuel’s public school appointees is gone.
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Madigan ally tells the City Council that Chicago needs to get its financial house in order
State representative Barbara Flynn Currie says the state won’t consider picking up CPS pension costs until Chicago changes its ways.
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Here comes another round of cuts for neighborhood schools
The foundation of Chicago’s school system loses more funding.
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Charter school teachers fight to unionize, and to win over Rahm
The latest battle over privatizing education in Chicago