Education

Alternative schools bear the brunt of student deaths in Chicago
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The district’s most vulnerable students often end up in alternative schools that are especially under-resourced to cope with the trauma of gun violence.
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The district’s most vulnerable students often end up in alternative schools that are especially under-resourced to cope with the trauma of gun violence.
The state is legally required to publish data on the race and ethnicity of students who are disciplined in schools. Here’s why that’s not happening.
The state has stalled on requiring school districts with the highest suspension and expulsion rates to improve.
National Teachers Academy parents argue that Chicago’s plan is discriminatory towards the top-ranked South Loop school’s mostly low-income and African-American students.
Although Chicago Public Schools promised a better education for thousands displaced by 2013’s closures, those students saw long-term negative effects, a sweeping report shows.
The recent sales of four vacant schools to private school operators could stir more competition for the public school system as school choice initiatives gain support in the state and nation.
Poor students continue to bear the brunt of Chicago’s newly approved plans to shut down more public schools.
As Chicago Public Schools prepares to shut down more schools, it faces continued resistance from people like Irene Robinson, whose community was fractured by 2013’s mass closures.
Many families fleeing the poorest pockets of the city are ending up in cash-strapped school systems in the suburbs and northwest Indiana.
Developers buying shuttered Chicago schools face stiff competition for tax credits that make their repurposing plans viable.