- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 19, 2013
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Mayor Rahm to Von Steuben: No toilet paper for you!
Mayor Rahm's spending so much cash on his hotel/DePaul basketball arena scheme that he's got no money to buy toilet paper or librarians for the schools.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 13, 2013
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Millions for DePaul, budget cuts for public schools
As principals warn their staff of budget cuts in the public schools, Mayor Emanuel takes another step to spend $55 million in property taxes on a hotel and DePaul University basketball arena.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 13, 2013
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Why trying to make separate equal is a failing strategy for Chicago's schools
Separate but equal "has no place in the field of public education."
- News & Features, Feature, Jun 13, 2013
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Trying to make separate equal
Having failed at desegregation, Chicago has tried instead to provide quality education in poor, racially isolated schools. That hasn’t worked either.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 5, 2013
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Rauner announces he's running for governor, doesn't mention Payton Prep charge
On a Republican hopeful, and the issue he hopes will go away.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 30, 2013
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Mayor Rahm's great plan for education: Bankrupt the schools!
If Mayor Rahm gets to throw away property tax dollars on things like his $55 million basketball arena/hotel scheme, there won't even be any money left over for the charter schools.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 24, 2013
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Mayor Rahm's school board takes a big stand!
Chicago's school-closing board once again proves it's a wholly owned subsidiary of Mayor Rahm.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 23, 2013
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During school-closing vote, Mayor Emanuel is heard but not seen
Rahm made himself scarce as his education aides finalized the plan to shutter 50 schools.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, May 23, 2013
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Rahm's latest plan: Close the schools, build an arena
The mayor prepares to take tax money from public education and use it on a sports facility for DePaul.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 20, 2013
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Remembering Chicago's great school boycott of 1963
Kartemquin Films documents the city's last big school protest—just in time for the present one.
- News & Features, Deanna Isaacs on Culture, May 16, 2013
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Do we really need the Great Chicago Fire Festival?
The city wants a festival that'll enhance its global image; Redmoon is planning an exorcism.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2013
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Mayor Rahm's Chicago—in black and white
The racial breakdown in the Tribune poll on Mayor Emanuel and the schools shows that how you view the mayor depends on how he's been treating your community.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, May 14, 2013
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Mayor Emanuel's FOIA policy: Don't ask because we won't tell
As a Chicago parent discovered, city officials can't hand over records if they've already destroyed them.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 9, 2013
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If only the students at Lincoln Park High were on the school board
The students of Lincoln Park High are the role models that the Board of Education—and the City Council—should follow.
- Blogs, Bleader, May 8, 2013
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Mudslinging at the Rauner exploratory campaign for governor
"I scare politicians in both parties," Bruce Rauner says.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, May 7, 2013
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The school model that's good enough for President Obama and Mayor Emanuel
The prestigious University of Chicago Lab Schools respect and reward teachers—so why can't the public schools?
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Apr 30, 2013
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In the Chicago Public Schools, promises are made to be broken
The treatment of teachers at Lincoln Park High raises questions about Mayor Emanuel's other school pledges
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 26, 2013
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Chicago school officials eliminate a standardized test
One test bites the dust. Will others?
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 17, 2013
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How would Mayor Emanuel treat the Ricketts family if they were poor?
Let's say as poor and powerless as the people whose schools and mental health clinics he's closing
- Blogs, Bleader, Apr 11, 2013
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Fifty years ago: A basketball title and a school boycott for Chicago
In 1963, the Loyola Ramblers struck a blow for integration, while the Chicago Public Schools were preserving segregation.
