After being pushed around for three years, some principals are pushing back against Mayor Emanuel.
Tag: principals
Posted inNews & Politics
The trials of a neighborhood high school
Wells Community Academy in West Town has many problems—and some rare successes. Can it survive?
Posted inBlogs
Promising CPS principal follows promising CPS administrator to Madison
Nancy Hanks and Jennifer Cheatham are putting their skills to work—elsewhere.
Posted inNews & Politics
School dismissed for a beloved security guard
Kelvyn Cockrell started going to Henson elementary at age six, and he never stopped. But now that the school is among 50 closed by CPS, he’ll have to.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How Chicago’s five-year school plan was dead on arrival
With more budget cuts, Mayor Emanuel dooms the education polices he forced into place.
Posted inNews & Politics
Filed Away?
“Honorably terminated” teachers—some nationally recognized—say they can’t get so much as a callback about jobs in the Chicago Public Schools. One colleague’s bureaucratic nightmare has given them reason to fear the worst.