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Author Archives: Susan DeGrane

Posted inCatalyst Chicago, Education, Uncategorized

Samuel Williams: A quiet toughness

by Susan DeGrane December 27, 2005August 15, 2016

Englewood certainly needed help when Williams took the helm in July 1997. Tommye Brown, who had been principal only a year, had just transferred to central office, citing health reasons. Previously an elementary school principal, Brown had been given the formidable assignment of reducing gang influence at the school.

Posted inCatalyst Chicago, Education, Uncategorized

School drops ‘ghosts,’ truants

by Susan DeGrane December 27, 2005August 15, 2016
Posted inCatalyst Chicago, Education, Uncategorized

‘Now we’re proud’ to go to Englewood

by Susan DeGrane December 27, 2005August 15, 2016
Posted inCatalyst Chicago, Education, Uncategorized

A reconstitution checklist

by Susan DeGrane December 27, 2005August 15, 2016
Posted inCatalyst Chicago, Education, Uncategorized

Reconstitution brings Harper new life

by Susan DeGrane December 27, 2005August 15, 2016
Posted inCatalyst Chicago, Education, Uncategorized

‘We’ve still got to get everybody together’

by Susan DeGrane December 27, 2005August 15, 2016
Posted inCatalyst Chicago, Education, Uncategorized

Robeson hurt by stigma of reconstitution

by Susan DeGrane December 19, 2005August 15, 2016
Posted inCatalyst Chicago, Cover Story, Education

Fenger, Chicago Ag, Shields out front

by Susan DeGrane July 26, 2005August 15, 2016
Posted inCatalyst Chicago, Cover Story, Education

Learning ‘a second language’

by Susan DeGrane July 26, 2005August 15, 2016
Posted inCatalyst Chicago, Cover Story, Education

No ‘cookie-cutter’ solutions but a lot more work

by Susan DeGrane July 26, 2005August 15, 2016

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