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CPS employee accused of pushing student down stairs
Tribune reporterChicago Public Schools has removed a Dunbar Vocational Career Academy employee from his position after a video posted online appears to show him pushing a female student down a flight of stairs. The 16-year-old student’s family released a statement...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Students, Teaching and Learning
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CPS suspends employee seen pushing student in video
Chicago Public Schools has removed a Dunbar Vocational Career Academy employee from his job after a video was posted online that appears to show him pushing a female student down a flight of stairs. The 16-year-old student's family released a statement...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Students, Teaching and Learning
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Hearing set on lawsuits over CPS closings
A day after the controversial Chicago Board of Education vote to shut 49 elementary schools, a federal judge on Thursday scheduled a four-day hearing in July on two lawsuits that seek to halt the closings. The hearing before U.S. District Judge John Lee...
Tags: Court Preliminary, Trials, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Hearing set in lawsuits over Chicago Public Schools closings
Tribune reporterA day after the controversial Chicago Board of Education vote to shut down 50 schools, a federal judge today scheduled a four-day hearing in July to decide whether to halt the closures. The hearing before U.S. District Judge John Lee is likely to include...Tags: Court Preliminary, Trials, Justice System, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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School closings disappoint many aldermen
Tribune reportersAfter the Chicago School Board meeting Wednesday, many of the aldermen who argued unsuccessfully to keep schools in their wards open said they were disappointed with the process. Ald. Deborah Graham, 29th, said she went to testify at the school board...Tags: Chicago City Hall, Arne Duncan, Walter Burnett, Jr., Students, Carrie Austin
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Our responsibility to Chicago's youngest generation
Every elected official loves nothing more than to open a new school, a new library or a new park. But the demands of elected office require doing more than what we "like" doing. The oath that we take to serve residents and build a better future for our...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Students, Science and Technology, Chicago Mayor, Teaching and Learning
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Voice of the People, May. 22
Labeling schools In the controversy over school closings, we often hear the term "failing" as a reason for closing a school. The use of this term is both degrading and insulting to the students, teachers and parents of those schools. A school is a...Tags: Teachers, DePaul University, Students, Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Mayor
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Some school closings make no sense
Some of the proposed school closings make no sense, especially those involving buildings renovated to accomodate students with disabilities (“CPS documents raise questions about closings,” News, May 17). I had given Mayor Rahm Emanuel the...Tags: Students, Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel, Teaching and Learning, Education
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St. Charles District 303 approves new contract, pay raises for teachers
After a period where salaries were frozen, St. Charles District 303 teachers have a new, three-year contract, complete with pay raises. The school board approved the contract Monday night after four months of negotiations. Teachers already had signed...Tags: Mental Health, Teachers, Teaching and Learning
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Summer vacation time not equal across Chicagoland
While many of her friends are stuck in school into June, Wauconda eighth-grader Alexandra Hayden plans to take advantage of her district's early summer break to beat the crowds at Six Flags Great America. "I'm going to party," said Alexandra, who is...
Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Career and Workplace, Strikes, Six Flags Great America, Teachers
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Protesters: Route to new school a 'danger zone'
Tribune reporterBeads of sweat dripped down Jitu Brown’s face as he addressed about 150 marchers who had gathered on Sunday afternoon outside Overton Elementary School in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood. The school at East 49th Street and South Indiana...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Kenwood, Students, Chicago Teachers Union, Bronzeville
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CPS training video helps improve ties between school guards, students
Until this school year, Ranice Green never thought she could have a say about how she interacted with the security guards at Hyde Park Academy, where she's a senior. She saw them as burly guys who often stopped fights and walked students to the...
Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning
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