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Mayor Rahm’s principal merit pay award goes to his biggest school critic
Troy LaRaviere, one of the mayor’s most outspoken school critics, won three straight mayoral merit pay awards.
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Mayor Rahm and his administration struggle to tell the truth
As the journalist Sarah Karp recently learned the hard way, you’ve got to be a bulldog to rip some shred of truth from Mayor Rahm’s administration.
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Reporters talk schools and journalism in the Age of Rahm
Live at the Hideout: Three of Chicago’s best education reporters discuss schools and how Mayor Rahm handles the press.
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FitzPatrick, Karp, and Lutton talking schools at the Hideout!
Just in time for the start of the school year, Mick and Ben will be at the Hideout on August 5 with three great education reporters: Lauren FitzPatrick, Sarah Karp, and Linda Lutton.
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How I spent my summer break: Firing teachers
A Chicago principal explains how she spent her summer break: Firing teachers.
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Mayor Rahm takes a TIF poll!
Feeling the heat from parents upset about school funding cuts, Mayor Emanuel sets up a hot line.
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Wake up, everybody: Linda Lutton tells it like it is about CPS
Linda Lutton and other reporters blow the whistle on the CPS rent-a-protester movement.
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Think you’ve got journalism’s next big idea? Get to know Elspeth Revere, the MacArthur Foundation’s media maven
The most important woman in Chicago journalism attended the landmark Chicago Journalism Town Hall in early 2009 and sat quietly in back. Few people knew she was there or who she was, but the noisy room would have gone stone silent in an instant if she’d stood and said something like, “Many of you have […]
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Huberman thread disappears from Catalyst blog
Catalyst takes down a blog post inviting comment on the homosexuality of Chicago’s new public schools chief.