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Home » longer school day

Tag: longer school day

Posted inBlogs

If facts are taken into account, Rahm’s budget claims don’t all add up

by Mick Dumke October 24, 2013August 19, 2021

Fact-checking Mayor Emanuel’s budget speech

Posted inColumns & Opinion

How I spent my summer break: Firing teachers

by Ben Joravsky August 13, 2013August 19, 2021

A Chicago principal explains how she spent her summer break: Firing teachers.

Posted inBlogs

Mayor Rahm: Sofa King of Chicago

by Ben Joravsky July 19, 2013August 19, 2021

The peasants laugh at the King: Bridgeport’s mysterious political button man sends in a whole new batch making fun of Mayor Rahm.

On the last day of classes, demonstrators occupied Jean de Lafayette Elementary School in Humboldt Park to protest its closing next year. Mayor Rahm Emanuel was traveling overseas.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

How Chicago’s five-year school plan was dead on arrival

by Ben Joravsky June 25, 2013August 19, 2021

With more budget cuts, Mayor Emanuel dooms the education polices he forced into place.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is undermining the state Freedom of Information Act; Attorney General Lisa Madigan is charged with enforcing it.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Mayor Emanuel’s FOIA policy: Don’t ask because we won’t tell

by Ben Joravsky May 14, 2013August 19, 2021

Mayor Emanuel finds a new way to avoid sharing public records: throwing them out.

University of Chicago Lab Schools parent Barack Obama, graduate Arne Duncan, and parent Rahm Emanuel
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The school model that’s good enough for President Obama and Mayor Emanuel

by Ben Joravsky May 7, 2013August 19, 2021

If unionized teachers are good enough for Mayor Emanuel’s kids, why not the public schools?

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Mayor Emanuel’s crowded-classroom approach to fixing schools

by Ben Joravsky April 2, 2013August 19, 2021

A glimpse at the school overcrowding likely to result from Mayor Emanuel’s “consolidation” plan.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Good luck finding the documents that explain CPS’s longer school day

by Ben Joravsky February 14, 2013August 19, 2021

Good luck finding the documents that explain CPS’s longer school day

Posted inBlogs

Mayor Daley for mayor!

by Ben Joravsky May 3, 2012August 19, 2021

Mayor Daley sees the light on Mayor Rahm’s longer school day

John Kugler
Posted inColumns & Opinion

Wake up, Chicago Teachers Union

by Ben Joravsky September 29, 2011August 19, 2021

Mayor Emanuel has changed the rules—and you need to get in the game

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Mayor union-buster

by Ben Joravsky September 22, 2011August 19, 2021

Rahm Emanuel fights the Chicago Teachers Union over a longer school day–and it’s not about the kids

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