- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Sep 12, 2012
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Why Chicago teachers hate Rahm
How the teachers union got to the point of a strike
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Oct 3, 2012
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Today's lesson: charters do not outperform unionized schools
Confronting the anti-teachers' union myth with, you know, facts
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Sep 22, 2011
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Mayor union-buster
Rahm Emanuel fights the Chicago Teachers Union over a longer school day–and it’s not about the kids
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Jun 30, 2011
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How a CPS teacher went from 'excellent' to 'do-not-hire' in one year
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Nov 7, 2012
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To Mayor Emanuel, some jobs are worth more than others
What's really saved by privatizing a couple dozen positions at the water department?
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Mar 28, 2012
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How Rahm Emanuel can 'save' the schools (and he doesn't have to give me credit)
The longer-school-day debate rages on
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Sep 29, 2011
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Wake up, Chicago Teachers Union
Mayor Emanuel has changed the rules—and you need to get in the game
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, May 16, 2012
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NATO uncovered
A big international story in a city whose press no longer thinks globally
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, May 23, 2012
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While you were distracted by NATO ...
Mayor Emanuel doles out TIF and charter money—and cuts cops and libraries
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, Nov 20, 2012
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Not so fast, Northwestern
Prentice's reprieve from the wrecking ball allows a look at NU's tear-down rationale—and the alternatives
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Jul 28, 2011
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Blogger Fred Klonsky's crusade against public education reform
Klonsky's is a voice from the classroom that's oft overlooked
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Jul 10, 2012
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The coy deceits of struggling journalists
Unlike Anderson Cooper, fellow "grayhairs" have some secrets to keep
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Oct 3, 2012
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A small-town newspaper publisher's alternative universe
An act of satire in the Madison County Crier led to an advertiser exodus—and a principled stand by a publisher who took a risk on hyperlocal journalism
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Jan 8, 2013
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Keeping up with the Jones high school plans
How Mayor Emanuel could turn Jones high into a neighborhood school—and win my almost undying support
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Sep 26, 2012
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Fighting for the right to fire bad teachers—and good ones too
The story of the UNO charter school teacher dismissed despite doing his job with "dignity"
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Oct 17, 2012
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Santa's helper nailed for medical marijuana stash
Michelle DiGiacomo ordered weed from a California grower to help relieve chronic pain. She says that landed her in a more painful situation than she ever could have imagined
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Jul 24, 2012
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Death of a cowboy
Where have all the male role models gone?
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Aug 18, 2011
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Laid off from teaching—forever
Why Chicago Public Schools slapped its "do-not-hire" designation on another highly rated teacher.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Nov 17, 2011
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An analysis of Senator Kirk's charter school 'analysis'
Mark Kirk claims that Chicago’s top high schools are charters, but that doesn’t mean it’s true
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Nov 23, 2011
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Library envy
As Mayor Emanuel cuts, his hometown shows how to invest in a library
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