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Home » Board of Education

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Posted inBlogs

How Cooley High and Good Times shone a spotlight on Chicago Public Schools

by Renata Cherlise and Danielle A. Scruggs June 14, 2016August 18, 2021

Nearly 41 years after the premier of Cooley High, we take a look back at CPS during the 60s and 70s, and the longstanding fight for educational equality.

Posted inBlogs

Alderman Joravsky considers voting for Mayor Rahm’s budget

by Ben Joravsky October 30, 2015August 18, 2021

If I were alderman, how would I have voted on the mayor’s budget?

Posted inColumns & Opinion

All aboard! Claypool transfers CTA pals to CPS

by Ben Joravsky September 3, 2015August 18, 2021

Rahm’s schools CEO is putting a new spin on an old Chicago budget trick.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Rahm’s latest plan: Borrowing from the teachers to pay the teachers

by Ben Joravsky July 8, 2015August 18, 2021

The mayor pays off one debt by creating another one.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and 26th Ward alderman Roberto Maldonado are behind the conversion of Ames Middle School into a military academy.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Mayor Emanuel sends the marines into Ames Middle School

by Ben Joravsky February 25, 2014August 18, 2021

Politicians plan to convert another neighborhood school into a military academy.

Alderman Nicholas Sposato dared to propose a discussion about charter schools. It was immediately killed by allies of Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

In Chicago, charter schools remain untouchable

by Ben Joravsky January 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Aldermen kill a proposal to discuss school policies but find time to take on Eliot Ness.

Students and community leaders have protested plans to open a new charter school across the street from Prosser High School, but Mayor Rahm Emanuel appears to be pushing ahead.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Rahm creates a process to endorse his plan for more charter schools

by Ben Joravsky December 31, 2013August 18, 2021

Rahm creates a process to endorse his plan for more charter schools.

Posted inNews & Politics

The year in politics: Our third annual awards for political ‘achievement’

by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke December 23, 2013August 19, 2021

The year in politics: Our third annual awards for political “achievement”

Top: Aldermen prepare to approve Mayor Emanuel’s new parking meter deal. Bottom: Members of the school board prepare to approve Mayor Emanuel’s school-closing plan.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The madness behind Mayor Emanuel’s methods

by Ben Joravsky June 13, 2013August 19, 2021

In pushing his agenda, Mayor Emanuel doesn’t let facts get in the way.

Posted inBlogs

School closings in Chicago—I ain’t over ’em yet!

by Ben Joravsky June 6, 2013August 19, 2021

Mayor Emanuel’s decision to close 50 schools only seems to get worse with time.

Posted inBlogs

If only the students at Lincoln Park High were on the school board

by Ben Joravsky May 9, 2013August 19, 2021

The students of Lincoln Park High are the role models that the Board of Education—and the City Council—should follow.

Posted inNews & Politics

People Issue 2012: Tony Bacon, the custodian

by Chicago Reader December 19, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicago Public Schools employee: “The union guy told me, ‘Just be happy you got a job.'”

Sunny Neater-DuBow
Posted inNews & Politics

Define “Redefinition”

by Ben Joravsky September 2, 2010August 19, 2021

Exemplary art teacher Sunny Neater-DuBow was fired without due process because CPS says her job has been redefined. So why is her exact job now posted as an opening?

Ron Huberman
Posted inNews & Politics

Do as We Say, Not as We Do

by Ben Joravsky April 1, 2010August 19, 2021

The Chicago Public Schools are broke. Teachers have been asked to share the pain. Coaches have been asked to work for free. Bigger class sizes have been threatened. So why are CEO Ron Huberman and other top bureaucrats taking raises?

John Caldow at Whitney Young
Posted inNews & Politics

Off Track

by Ben Joravsky February 25, 2010August 19, 2021

Chicago Public Schools eliminates the already skimpy pay for assistant track coaches. We have some alternate suggestions.

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