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Original Technorati articles tagged “chicago public schools”

• in Technorati Women
  When it Comes to Lunch, Principal Knows Best?
  One CPS school banned home made lunches, should we be upset or applaud the principle for creative thinking.
  by pbinmyhair / on Apr 14, 2011
• in Lifestyle
  The Sweet Smell Of Facebook: Hamburgers Cooked Over Burning Tires
  Teacher faces discipline for Facebook photo of pupil but really who is to blame?
  by artistedeparis / on Apr 7, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “chicago public schools”

 

• Education Activists Take School Closing Fight To City Hall (VIDEO)

  
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  A few hundred education activists kicked off the last day of the Chicago Teachers Unions (CTU) three-day march against school closings at William J. & Charles H. Mayo Elementary School Monday morning. Mayo students were expected to come out of the school for a performance that was set to include singing, ...
  4 days ago

• Chicagoans Continue Three-Day March Calling On CPS To Keep Our Schools Open (VIDEO)

  
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  The West Side leg of the Chicago Teachers Unions (CTU) three-day march  against school closings saw dozens of parents, teachers and education activists blocking traffic throughout the areas streets Monday, chanting “Save Our Schools!” “We are marching to keep our schools open,” said Jesse Sharkey, vice ...
  4 days ago

• School Protesters Arrested At City Hall

  
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  More than a dozen people protesting the plans to close more than 50 Chicago public schools were arrested on Monday at City Hall.
  4 days ago

• CPS Policies Reinforce Segregation In Chicago, Finds CTU Report

  
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  On the 59-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Courts landmark decision to end segregation in public schools, Brown v. Board of Education , the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) released a report claiming widespread segregation still exists in Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the district’s administration is doing ...
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• Teachers’ Union To Wrap Up Three-Day Protest Of School Closings

  
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  City streets could be full of protesters again on Monday, as the Chicago Teachers Union wraps up a three-day march to voice opposition to plans to close more than 50 public schools.
  4 days ago

• Women Speak Out On CPS School Closings & Immigration Reform As Mothers Day Weekend Begins (VIDEO)

  
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  Including the voice of women, and particularly mothers, in pending issues across the city, state, and country is increasingly important, according to several organizations which saw the start of Mother’s Day weekend as an opportunity to advocate for their causes. The Chicago Foundation for Women on Friday joined ...
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• How Far Will They Go - CPSs smallest school closing has big implications

  
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  Kate S. Buckingham Special Education Center serves thirty-nine students with severe emotional disorders. If the school closes, its students will face a fourteen mile move to their new school, a trek many argue isnt safe for them to make. Read more →
  2 weeks ago

• Community Activists Say Bank Of America Is A Destabilizing Force In Chicago (VIDEO)

  
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  Bank of America (BOA) serves as a destabilizing force in Chicago’s blighted communities, according to approximately 50 protesters who took their message to a downtown branch on Tuesday. Organized by the Grassroots Collaborative on the eve of Bank of America’s shareholder meeting in North Carolina, demonstrators ...
  2 weeks ago

• Independent Hearing Officers Disagee With 14 Proposed School Closings

  
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  News links:  Chicago Tribune Of the 53 elementary schools recommended for closure by Chicago Public Schools (CPS) officials, independent hearing officers are rejecting 14 of the proposals. The independent hearing officers, mostly retired judges, were ...
  2 weeks ago

• Hug A Crossing Guard Today

  
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  May 7th is Crossing Guard Appreciation Day in the State of Illinois. No. Seriously. No kidding. Since 2005, Illinois has been recognizing the important work of getting kids to school safely each day by designating the first day of May annually to encourage people to show appreciation for their local crossing guards. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Independent Hearing Officers Oppose Plans To Close 13 Schools

  
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  Independent hearing officers enlisted to review plans to close 53 Chicago Public Schools at the end of the school year have opposed at least 13 of the proposed closings.
  2 weeks ago

• WBEZ: CPS quietly lowers its estimated cost savings from closing 54 schools

  
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  "CPS Our Children...Our Future" I wonder whats the story here . If its not about the money what is it about? Chicago’s school district will not be saving as much by closing 54 schools as it originally told the public. When it announced the closings , Chicago Public Schools said it would save $560 million ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sun-Times: Players from Payton, Brooks to meet at breakfast Friday at CPS headquarters

  
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  Ive been hearing about this story for quite a while. A baseball game was cancelled but for what? The original game was canceled last Saturday night after several parents decided not to let their kids travel to the South Side neighborhood because they feared for their safety, Payton coach William Wittleder told the ...
  3 weeks ago

• City Council Committee Approves Charter School Previously Rejected By CPS

  
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  A Chicago City Council committee is recommending approval of a new charter school in the McKinley Park area that was previously rejected by the Chicago School Board, reports WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore.
  3 weeks ago

• Study: 20 To 30 Percent Of CPS Students Rarely Use Technology In School

  
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  A new study commissioned by the University of Chicago paints a disappointing picture of technology use among public school students in Chicago.
  4 weeks ago

• Welcoming Schools To Have ‘Children Ambassadors’ For Kids From Closed Schools

  
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  As Chicago Public Schools officials get closer to closing more than 50 elementary schools, they were releasing new details Tuesday on how they plan to tackle one of the most sensitive issues: blending two schools into one.
  4 weeks ago

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