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September, 2007
For two decades, Evanston public schools have maintained a racial and ethnic balance by making sure no one racial or ethnic group is more than 60 percent of a school's total population.
But an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision may threaten that practice.
Already the court has heard oral arguments on behalf of Parents Involved in Community Schools, a nonprofit group that is...
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September, 2007
Without any test scores or longitudinal studies, an African-centered pilot program in one Evanston school is making believers out of many parents, teachers and administrators who say the impact is visible in students, parents and teachers who seem "enthusiastically engaged," said Hardy Murphy, superintendent of Evanston- Skokie Community Consolidated School District 65.
"Their minds have...
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September, 2007
Lanette Stigsen was at work when she overheard a man tell a co-worker about his trip to Africa. He had spent the last year selecting youth from high schools across Chicago and flying them to a continent unfamiliar to them-but from which some of their ancestors came. That was until his mother got ill and could no longer make the annual trip. He would have to remain in the U.S. to care for her...
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September, 2007
The self-drawn tattoos on Kortney Ryan Ziegler's arms were birthday presents to herself. On her right forearm rests a guardian angel with a star and on the left a Yoruba statue. It's meant to be a satire of the perceptions some people have about what "African" people look like, said the 26-year-old Northwestern University doctoral student.
Pushing the conventional boundaries, Ziegler...
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September, 2007
Unlicensed child-care providers are concentrated in the city's most impoverished–"and racially isolated–"neighborhoods.
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September, 2007
The before- and after-school routines worked smoothly last school year for northwest-side Evanston resident Karen Goetz and her daughter, Laura, a third-grader.
Laura awoke at 7 a.m., her mother said, and they left the house together at 8 a.m. for the two-and-a-half-block walk to Lincolnwood Elementary. They would arrive by the time the doors opened at 8:10 a.m., which gave Laura some time...
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September, 2007
Evanston-Skokie School District 65 would be hard-pressed to integrate its schools without busing and school attendance areas that stretch across several neighborhoods, since most of the city is not sufficiently racially mixed. There are no elementary schools located in Evanston's mostly-black 5th Ward, where nearly half of the elementary school students are bused to schools in other neighborhoods...
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September, 2007
Bruce M. Allman, principal of Eliza Campbell Elementary School, reads with students during the first week of class. (Photo by Rebekah Raleigh)
When state exam scores were released this summer, 365 of Chicago's 602 public schools failed to meet national requirements in reading and math. Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the students at those schools were offered the option of...
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October, 2007
At the stoplight on the corner of Illinois Route 25 and County Line Road in west suburban Carpentersville, an embankment behind an old-fashioned gas station looks as though it should give way to lines of wheat and corn. But instead there are lines of homes, each one only slightly different than the next, along curving streets.
Where the homes stop, construction vehicles sit poised to build...
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