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Chicago: The Southside Irish Parade

I went to the Southside Irish Parade last weekend. The Cop in front of us just couldn’t stop laughing. Laughing and pointing…. Did you see it? See what? 350,000 people are coming down to the parade and you smash your cruiser into a light pole at exit...
REN 2010: Examining Chicago Public Schools

REN 2010: Examining Chicago Public Schools

There are approximately 410,000 students in the 655 schools in the CPS system. That’s approximately 18.8% of all Illinois public school students. 84.9% of these students are from low-income families; 14.4% of these students are limited-English-proficient; 91.3%...

What Does Arne Duncan Think About NCLB?

Education has been my life’s work, starting on the South Side of Chicago where I grew up along with my sister and brother, as a part of my mother’s inner city after-school tutoring program, Sue Duncan’s Children’s Center, where I learned to, as she says...

Chicago Public Schools: Renaissance 2010

Over the last two months parents, parent groups such as Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE) and the Caucus of Rank and File Educators (C.O.R.E.) — the “reform” caucus of the Chicago Teachers Union have organized protests over announced...