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• Charter Schools and School Choice

  —BackyardConservative

  Charter Schools Against the Odds. They're growing, despite union hostility. WSJ.
  
  Hundreds of thousands are on waiting lists--no room at the inn. How about opening up more opportunity?
  
  School Choice: Past, Present, and Future, Joseph Bast, Heartland Institute
  
  Chicago Public Schools may revamp their' [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 1:20pm EST
  

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• Media Plays Catch Up

  —Second City Cop

  Again, behind the curve:
  There's another story of a Chicago Public Schools student being viciously attacked. This time, the victim may have lost an eye.
  
  The culprits appear to be a pack of girls."Pack of girls" would appear to be an appropriate description. This event was related [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 12:05am EST
  

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• Daley recruits students to lobby parents in census effort

  —Clout St

  Posted by John Byrne at 1:55 p.m. Chicago Public Schools students will learn about next year's census as city officials recruit teens to lobby their parents to fill out census forms. The federal "Census in Schools" program will provide teachers...

  
  

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  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:55pm EST
  by Newsdesk

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• Big Brother can follow you to your death. Who knew?

  —Change of Subject

  Rich Miller's >Question of the Day is similar to a question that occurred to me.  News reports tell us that

  Public surveillance cameras ... recorded (Chicago Public Schools CEO_ Michael Scott over a roughly 45-minute time period as he drove to the location along the Chicago River where he would,' [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 12:43pm EST
  by Eric Zorn

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• Daley lauds improved performance among CPS freshmen

  —Clout St

  Posted by John Byrne at 5:06 p.m. The number of Chicago Public Schools high school freshmen on track to graduate on time went up more than 8 percent between 2008 and 2009 according to a University of Chicago academic success...

  
  

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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 5:06pm EST
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• Is tenure for public school teachers defensible?

  —Change of Subject

  Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman is floating a few ideas for how to improve teacher quality. He says fewer third year teachers should be granted tenure...WBEZ-FM I understand the need for tenure at colleges and universities where it serves as bulwark for intellectual freedom. Academics should be free to [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 4:14pm EST
  by Eric Zorn

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• Berkowitz to join headliner Paul Vallas on Tom Roeser's weekly WLS- 890 AM radio show, Political Shoot-out, this Sunday night at 8:00 pm

  —Public Affairs

  After all the turkey left-overs have been eaten on Sunday and there is virtually no football left to watch, don't despair, you will still have one big treat in store for you.
  
  Jeff Berkowitz will join Paul Vallas, former Chicago Public Schools CEO (1995-2001) and first runner-up to Rod' [...]

  Posted: November 25, 2009, 7:42pm EST
  

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