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Blogs, Bleader, May 15, 2013
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.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, News, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Tribune, Karen Lewis, Toni Preckwinkle, Chicago Teachers Union, mayoral poll, Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Public Library.

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News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Jan 8, 2013
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
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, Pacific Garden Mission, CPS, high schools, college preparatory high schools, Jones high school, Jones Commercial School, William Jones College Preparatory, Jones College Prep, Richard M. Daley, South Loop, gentrification, Arne Duncan, Robert Fioretti, Paul Vallas, Becky Carrol, neighborhood schools

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News & Features, Politics, Feb 23, 2012
The Reader goes to charter school

A visit with UNO's Juan Rangel
- by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, charter schools, teachers unions, United Neighborhood Organization, Hispanics, Saul Alinsky, Juan Rangel, Richard Daley, Rahm Emanuel, Pat Quinn, Ed Burke, UNO Charter School Network Soccer Academy, Miguel d'Escoto, soccer, white liberals, public schools, Chicago Public Schools

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Lit & Lectures, Lit Feature, Apr 3, 2013
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A history of gang violence: The Almighty Black P Stone Nation

A conversation about the five-decade evolution of a Chicago street gang
- by Mara Shalhoup
- Tags: Lit Feature, Natalie Y. Moore, gang rivalries, gang territories, gang boundaries, Lance Williams, Almighty Black P. Stone Nation, Lawrence Hill Books, Blackstone Rangers, Black P. Stone Nation, interviews, Gresham Elementary School, Garret Morgan school, Mahalia Jackson school, Blackstone, Mara Shalhoup, segregation, gangs, Al Sampson, crack, Martin Luther King, Jr., LSD, Lords, Stones, and Disciples, gang coalitions, inter-gang relations, gang violence, neighborhoods, south side, west side, school districts, school closings, history, Blackstones, Stones, WBEZ, Vice Lords, Northeastern Illinois University, Eugene "Bull" Hairston, Jeff Fort, Gangster Disciples, poverty, war on drugs, war on terror, war on poverty, violence, CPS, Chicago Public Schools, black power, civil rights movement, crime, activism, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, federal government

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News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Oct 23, 2012
Testing in kindergarten: whatever happened to story time?

Chicago kindergarteners could spend a third of their school year taking standardized tests
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, standardized testing, Chicago Public Schools, REACH, TRC, MAP, EXPLORE, ISAT, DIBELS, Performance Evaluation Reform Act, Pat Quinn, Race to the Top, Barack Obama, Arne Duncan, anxiety

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News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Apr 2, 2013
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Mayor Emanuel's crowded-classroom approach to fixing schools

How the school "consolidation" plan could make teaching and learning even harder.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Rahm Emanuel, CPS, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, special education, Chicago Public Schools, schools, special education, school closings, Dever Elemteray School, Dunning, Kerry Murphy, Tilly Tremmel, school consolidation, teachers, parents, longer school day, Richard M. Daley, William Banks, school libraries, libraries, school utilizaton, neighborhoods

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News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Jul 18, 2012
The shrinking slush fund

As the TIF stream slows, Mayor Emanuel dips in anyway
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, TIFs, Chicago Public Schools, LaSalle Central TIF, City Hyde Park, Harper Court, University of Chicago, Hyatt Hotels, Antheus Capital, Chicago Mercantile Exchange

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News & Features, Feature, Jul 21, 2011
Charter schools report card

How Chicago's charters responded to our FOIA, from "didn't even bother with a lame excuse" to "gold star!"
- by Ben Joravsky, Mick Dumke, and Asher Klein
- Tags: Feature, charter schools, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, teacher salaries, school budget, Freedom of Information Act, FOIA

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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
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Chicago Public Schools, Austin Polytechnic high school, Ron Huberman, Mayor Emanuel, Allison Bates, Fabby Williams, Lane Tech

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News & Features, Feature, Mar 27, 2013
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Standardized testing overkill at CPS

Even Chicago school officials allow that they're giving students too many standardized tests. Will they really cut back?
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, CPS, Race to the Top, Diane Ravitch, history, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, John Barker, Carol Caref, education history, history of standardized testing, Karl Androes, Performance Evaluation Reform Act, Chicago Public Schools, teacher evaluation, PERA, teachers, value-added modeling, Reading In Motion, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chicago Teachers Union, CTU, Alese Affatato, MAP test, Linda Darling Hammond, Measuring Academic Progress test, standardized tests, school testing, Humboldt Park, REACH test, Daisy Maass, Marlene Martin, More Than A Score coalition, education

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News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Feb 14, 2013
Good luck finding the documents that explain CPS's longer school day

Conclusions to draw from a yearlong Freedom of Information Act battle between the Chicago Public Schools and Glenn Krell, an intrepid north-side parent.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, CPS, teachers, teachers' strike, Freedom of Information Act, FOIA, Jean-Claude Brizard, Glenn Krell, parents, longer school day, decision-making, Arne Duncan, Lisa Madigan, Illinois attorney general, Sara Gadola Gallagher

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News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Mar 19, 2013
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The Emanuel administration kicks Persepolis out of class

Chicago Public Schools officials offer a lesson in confiscating books.
- by Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Ben Joravsky on Politics, CPS, curriculum, Chicago Public Schools, Marjane Satrapi, graphic novels, books, Persepolis, Persepolisgate, Nora Flanagan, Richard M. Daley, teachers, Lane Tech, Lane Tech College Prep High School, American Teacher Awards, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, school libraries, Christopher Dignam, Fred Klonsky, American Library Association, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Tribune, irony, emotion

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Jasmeen Wellere grew up on the south side, Hayley Himmelman on the North Shore. Both flourished in their classes, but they've faced very different challenges—and been afforded very different opportunities

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As a Chicago parent discovered, city officials can't hand over records if they've already destroyed them.

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The city wants a festival that'll enhance its global image; Redmoon is planning an exorcism.

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The prestigious University of Chicago Lab Schools respect and reward teachers—so why can't the public schools?

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Young, queer, and homeless in Boystown

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Should a Chicago Public Schools teacher have used "nigger" in a sixth-grade class?

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Confronting the anti-teachers' union myth with, you know, facts

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The treatment of teachers at Lincoln Park High raises questions about Mayor Emanuel's other school pledges

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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.

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How Mayor Emanuel could turn Jones high into a neighborhood school—and win my almost undying support

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A visit with UNO's Juan Rangel

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A conversation about the five-decade evolution of a Chicago street gang

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Chicago kindergarteners could spend a third of their school year taking standardized tests

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How the school "consolidation" plan could make teaching and learning even harder.

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As the TIF stream slows, Mayor Emanuel dips in anyway

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How Chicago's charters responded to our FOIA, from "didn't even bother with a lame excuse" to "gold star!"

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Even Chicago school officials allow that they're giving students too many standardized tests. Will they really cut back?

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Conclusions to draw from a yearlong Freedom of Information Act battle between the Chicago Public Schools and Glenn Krell, an intrepid north-side parent.

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Chicago Public Schools officials offer a lesson in confiscating books.