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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.

News & 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.

Blogs

Standardized testing: Cheating and other problems

by Steve Bogira April 8, 2013August 19, 2021

Is trustworthy high-stakes testing feasible?

If all goes according to plan, public school testing will drum out any vestiges of creativity by the start of first grade.

Columns & Opinion

Testing in kindergarten: whatever happened to story time?

by Ben Joravsky October 23, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicago kindergarteners could spend a third of their school year taking standardized tests

CEO of UNO Juan Rangel and Mayor Rahm Emanuel

Columns & Opinion

Today’s lesson: charters do not outperform unionized schools

by Ben Joravsky October 3, 2012August 19, 2021

There are no charters in the top ten schools in Chicago. None in the top 20, 30, or 40 either.