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Success is Possible for Undocumented Students, Experts Say
Experts from around the country share strategies on how undocumented students can stay afloat and become professionals Hundreds of high school and college advisors from across the country came to Chicago on May 1 and 2 for The College Board’s Prepárate conference, dedicated to increasing college access and success among Latino students. For the first [...]
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Seward Academy Students Win City Science Fair Awards
Daniel Flores (Left), Daniel Morales (Right) Two students from Seward Academy in Back of the Yards won top honors at the CPS City Science Fair this year. Daniel Morales and Daniel Flores, advanced from the Pershing Network CPS Regional Science Fair to the CPS City Science Fair in January of 2013. The City Science [...]
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CPS CEO Discusses Improving Schools in Back of the Yards
Community members say student safety, stress are great concerns CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett met with members of Back of the Yards to discuss ways to improve the quality of area schools including the safety of students in the neighborhood. “I’d like to do three things, one, share a few things about me, let you know [...]
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CPS Shifting to Per-Pupil Funding Model
Chicago Public Schools will change how it funds schools next year, announcing it will give principals the power to choose how to direct their resources. Next year, all CPS schools will receive a specific amount of funding per student. In the past, principals received per-position allocations from the Central Office based on a formula that [...]
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CPS Releases New School Year Calendar, Eliminates Two-Schedule System
All Chicago public school students will have a single calendar with the start of the next school year. On Wednesday Jan. 23, the Chicago Board of Education approved a measure that will end the two-track school schedule it had implemented several years ago. The elimination of the two-schedule system was part of the negotiations with [...]
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CPS to Hold Second Round of Community Meetings
Before CPS releases a list of school closings, community members have more chances to speak for local schools CPS said communities around the city will get several chances to speak on behalf of local schools before it releases a list of school closings. School officials said, 28 more community meetings will be held across the [...]
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Questions for the School Utilization Commission
There’s an awful lot of confusion around the CPS’s new commission on school utilization An earlier version of this report appeared at Community Media Workshop’s Newstips.org. There’s lot of confusion around CPS’s new commission on school utilization and the district’s drive to close neighborhood schools. There’s confusion over CPS claims of an enrollment crisis, over [...]
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New Attendance Boundaries for the Back of the Yards High School
Boundaries for the new Back of the Yards International Baccalaureate High School were established during the Chicago Board of Education meeting yesterday. The school, set to open July 1, 2013 as a wall-to-wall IB school, will accept students residing within a specific attendance area surrounding the six CPS feeder schools in Back of the Yards. [...]
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Heading Back to the Classroom
This article is part of an ongoing Catalyst Chicago series that will follow minority teacher candidates through their student teaching experience, job hunt and first year in the classroom. Of the two Grow Your Own Teachers candidates Catalyst Chicago profiled earlier this year, just one is headed to the classroom. A research report released this [...]
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Parents Rally for Quality Schools
On the eve of the Chicago Public Schools Board of Education meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 13, parents and community members from across the city gathered outside CPS headquarters to shed light on the lack of quality public schools in many of Chicago’s communities of color, including Austin, Lawndale, Englewood, Humboldt Park and Roseland. Demanding CPS [...]
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