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Just two days after CPS released its budget which included the first year of funding towards making pre-k universal in Chicago, Mayor Rahm Emanuel today joined Chicago Public Schools and the Department of Family and Support Services to announce capital investments in five early education sites.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel today kicked off the 2018 One Summer Chicago jobs program with a visit to the Le Penseur Youth & Family Services Center.
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In April, Aramark, a Philadelphia-based food service and facilities company, held a jobs fair at St. Sabina Church on the South Side, listing openings for food service workers, cooks, general utility workers and custodial service workers.
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For the past 10 years, Saint Sabina Church in Auburn Gresham has marked the end of Chicago Public Schools' school year with a Peach March and Rally, inviting residents to join together in solidarity to speak out against violence.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel today joined 15th Ward Alderman Raymond Lopez to announce Gads Hill Center in Brighton Park will serve as the first of five new early education centers announced in the 2018 budget.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel today announced plans to implement universal full-day pre-kindergarten for 4-year-olds, starting with an expansion for an additional 3,700 children next school year in CPS.
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When chasing down a story, it’s a journalist’s ever-present fear that an outside event will make her work and research obsolete by the time it’s published.
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Mayor Rahm Emanuel today joined Chicago Public Schools to celebrate the schools named to the 2018 Best High Schools list by U.S.
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Records obtained by Chicago City Wire show that Chicago Public Schools (CPS) spent nearly $100,000 for student and teacher trips to the United Kingdom, Italy, South Africa and Costa Rica last year, as district leaders were asking Illinoisans to pay more in taxes to bail out the insolvent, debt-ridden district.
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The would-be founders of Chicago Classical Academy, which would have been a charter school rooted in the liberal arts and set apart from existing Chicago public schools, are discouraged that their application was not approved but they're not done, one would-be founder said during a recent interview.
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Expense records obtained by Chicago City Wire show that Chicago Public Schools spent nearly $100,000 on international student trips booked through a Chicago-based travel agency over the past year.
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Alice Epstein is hoping what she deems to be the will of the people is clearly heard when Chicago Classical Academy holds its first Illinois State Charter School Commission public hearing on Feb. 20.
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On episode two of Ready Set Gov, we’re joined by Linda Lenz, a veteran Chicago education writer, who walks us through the bipartisan education reform bill passed in Springfield. We talk about what it means for Illinois taxpayers and students alike.
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Grade school districts in Rosemont and Chicago ranked among Chicago's highest for math aptitude, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
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Although it was able to investigate only a fraction of the complaints it received, the Chicago Public Schools Office of the Inspector General (OIG) noted in its annual report that it logged nearly 1,500 reports of alleged misconduct, waste, fraud and financial mismanagement during fiscal 2017.
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During a three-year period, Chicago Public Schools employees spent more than $250,000 on gift cards, some of which were allegedly used as a way to get around a no-petty-cash policy instituted by the district, according to a recent report.
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A funding shortage is threatening to put an end to an award-winning Chicago Public Schools chess team.
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Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool resigned after a report by the schools office of the inspector general concluded that he and General Counsel Ronald Marmer violated the Code of Ethics when they improperly used “contract management authority," according to a Chicago Tribune report.
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Despite dismal student performance on annual exams covering math and reading, Chicago Public School graduation rates remain high, according to a Chicago City Wire analysis of 2016 data from the Illinois State Board of Education.
