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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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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, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, Education, Teaching and Learning
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School closings worst for students with special needs
On May 22, the Chicago School Board will decide whether to approve one of the largest mass school closings in U.S. history. The impacts will be felt in different ways by the more than 46,000 mostly black students who’ll be affected. But the action...Tags: Students, Teaching and Learning
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Chicago-area pension funding gap jumps to $32 billion: report
ReutersThe Chicago-based Civic Federation said Tuesday the funding gap for 10 Chicago-area public pension systems widened by 16.7 percent to $32 billion in fiscal 2011 from the year, warning of service cuts or tax hikes to bridge the gap. The civic watchdog...Tags: Finance, Interior Policy, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Park District, Pension and Welfare
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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: DePaul University, Students, Six Flags Great America, Teachers, Strikes
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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: Students, Kenwood, Rahm Emanuel, Bronzeville, Oakland (Chicago, Illinois)
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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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High school students turn to internships to help plot future
This summer, teenagers will canvass in support of politicians, help nurses in hospitals or tweet as part of a company's social media effort. They're still in high school but they are working unpaid internships — sometimes even paying thousands of...
Tags: Students, Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Hospitals and Clinics, Health and Medical Professionals
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School-closing foes take to the streets again
Beads of sweat dripped down Jitu Brown's face as he addressed about 150 marchers who had gathered Sunday afternoon outside Overton Elementary School in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. The school at East 49th Street and South Indiana Avenue is slated...
Tags: Students, Kenwood, Rahm Emanuel, Bronzeville, Oakland (Chicago, Illinois)
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Editorial: Mayor Difficult -- Has Emanuel alienated Chicagoans?
Early in 2011, Candidate Rahm Emanuel warned Chicagoans that their City Hall had to fix its finances or risk entering into eternal rest. The distance from broke government to broken government, he observed, is short: Without restoring financial health,...
Tags: Interior Policy, Collective Contract, Economy, Business and Finance, Chicago Mayor, Richard M. Daley
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Casino bill would give city unparalleled control
Mayor Rahm Emanuel is pushing lawmakers to pass a gambling bill that would allow the city to weigh its choice of a casino operator in secret and forbid state regulators from taking away its license. The legislation also would grant the mayor authority...
Tags: Government, Religion and Belief, Gambling, Pat Quinn, National Government
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CTU teachers, parents march to protest closings
Tribune reporterAbout 100 people, including local teachers, parents and students, marched Saturday morning on the South Side in protest of the proposed closing of 54 schools. The protest, organized by the Chicago Teachers Union, kicked off at 10 a.m. at Jesse Owens...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Elementary Schools, Jesse Owens, Teachers, Chicago Mayor
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