In part two of my conversation with the Chicago Teachers Union president, she shares about her time at Dartmouth College, why she left the classroom for the CTU job, her thoughts on the poverty gap, and more…
A Brookings study looks at changes in concentrated poverty during the last decade: the Midwest got hit the hardest, and across the country the gains of the 1990s have vanished.
The mayor and Joe Moreno weigh in on pot decriminalization and/or legalization; emergency visits from weed, inhalants, and pharmaceuticals; Portugal’s approach to decriminalization; and more.
As winter prepares to descend on Chicago, there’s pushback against city cuts to services for the homeless, but the state cuts remain dramatic. Plus: Leveraging street charity, then and now.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis has had some ugly squabbles with Rahm Emanuel—the longer school day battles, for starters, including his recent charge that the union is “cheating children out of an education”—and, in my opinion, she has often emerged the loser. Last week, she filed the CTU’s latest coverage of their public argument … Read more
LESSONS LEARNED: Across metropolitan Chicago, private elementary schools offer options for students and their parents seeking an alternative to the public-school model
Where we got the data and how we prepared our charts
DAMAGE CONTROL: As evidence of the toll taken by head injuries in football continues to mount, the high-tech quest to create a better helmet advances, little by little, in the lab
A marijuana-ticketing ordinance is due to City Council tomorrow; a four-part series on pot; a multi-part series on international fugitive suspects; America’s two great crime waves; and more.
Illinois’s school report cards are out, so everyone’s searching for patterns in the data. One bright spot: Chopin Elementary’s use of “looping,” an uncommon if storied practice that’s getting a new look.
