Chicago Public School students barely budged on fourth- and eighth-grade national math tests this year, despite a six-year push to improve mathematics instruction, federal data released today indicates.
CPS fourth and eighth graders [...]
These stories caught my eye because well I subscribe to a Google Alert where I can pick up articles regarding Ald. Lyle. There were stories on CPS admissions and stories (such as this) on an ordinance to restrict the number of dogs a person can own. [...]
One day in 2006, Chicago School Board president Michael Scott sat down for breakfast with CPS chief Arne Duncan, Congressman Danny Davis, and state senator Rickey Hendon in the back room of a soul food restaurant on the west side. They must have expected a quiet discussion in the [...]
The coroner's declaration that Chicago Board of Education President Michael Scott's sudden death early Monday morning has his friends doubting that Scott committed suicide. The Chicago Tribune talked to one willing to go on record:
"I don't believe Michael committed suicide, I'll tell you that," said Nelson Carlo, president of Carlo [...]
Police are careful, very careful, when it comes to homicide and suicide. We regret that Michael Scott’s death was ruled a suicide.
Such a loss.
The death of Chicago School Board President Michael Scott was ruled a suicide this afternoon by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. He died [...]
