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Posted inBlogs

Chicago readies Alexander Hamilton statue for Hamilton musical premiere, and other news

by Kate Shepherd April 7, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, the ultimate guide to Playboy’s Chicago.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago’s entire school desegregation strategy needs a turnaround

by Steve Bogira June 23, 2014August 18, 2021

Merely tweaking the selective enrollment school formula won’t help the vast majority of African-American and Hispanic CPS students.

Sandro and Sue Serra (left), Ryan Zoghlin and Melissa Moore (middle), and Jackie (right) and Johnny (not pictured) Strapp all left Chicago to enroll their children in higher-performing suburban public schools.
Posted inNews & Politics

Three families tell us why they ditched CPS

by Steve Bogira September 24, 2013August 19, 2021

When push comes to shove, the city’s middle-class parents often shove off for the suburbs.

Posted inBlogs

Why trying to make separate equal is a failing strategy for Chicago’s schools

by Steve Bogira June 13, 2013August 19, 2021

Separate but equal “has no place in the field of public education.”

Like many Chicago Public Schools, Melody elementary, in West Garfield Park, is racially segregated and struggling with problems stemming from the poverty of its students.
Posted inNews & Politics

Trying to make separate equal

by Steve Bogira June 13, 2013August 19, 2021

“By one means or another, our schools will be integrated,” federal judge Julius Hoffman said of Chicago schools in 1962. It was wishful thinking.

Posted inBlogs

The speech Obama should give in Chicago

by Steve Bogira February 14, 2013August 19, 2021

Is there something deeper than gun violence that we need to focus on?

Mayor Rahm Emanuel will soon make his next move in the plan to close Chicago schools.
Posted inColumns & Opinion

The Chicago manual of school closings

by Ben Joravsky January 22, 2013August 18, 2021

A close look at how Chicago officials shutter public schools

Posted inBlogs

Should Emanuel move to Englewood?

by Steve Bogira October 11, 2012August 19, 2021

Rahm’s desegregation plan

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