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Tag: magnet schools
Posted inBlogs
Chicago’s entire school desegregation strategy needs a turnaround
Merely tweaking the selective enrollment school formula won’t help the vast majority of African-American and Hispanic CPS students.
Posted inNews & Politics
Three families tell us why they ditched CPS
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
Separate but equal “has no place in the field of public education.”
Posted inNews & Politics
Trying to make separate equal
“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
Is there something deeper than gun violence that we need to focus on?
Posted inColumns & Opinion
The Chicago manual of school closings
A close look at how Chicago officials shutter public schools