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Criminal Justice
Acting on the ‘hard truths’ of racism in the Chicago Police Department
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The mayor’s task force acknowledged that racism and a lack of accountability pervade the Chicago Police Department, but questions of legitimacy affect hope for real reform.
From the Publisher
School portfolio needs a plan
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Charter schools present the most controversial and divisive issue I’ve encountered in 36 years of education reporting. Supporters passionately defend charters, and opponents fiercely attack them, leaving little room for rational consideration of their merits and shortcomings, and what role they might best play in a school district’s game plan. In this issue, we hope to bring some measure of clarity to the debate by illuminating the issues through the experiences of one charter network and school communities that have rallied to compete against charters.
The founder's retrospective
Well, since you asked …
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I’m often asked — by friends, television hosts, people I’ve just met — whether Chicago’s public schools have gotten any better after decades of reform. I know they’d like a simple yes or no, but I find neither satisfying. Rather, it’s been more like yes and no, or two steps forward, one step back.
Black middle-class
Living in the cross hairs of gun violence
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Chicago’s black middle-class can’t escape the city’s social problems, including its crime.
Publisher's Note
Same mission, different platform
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After 43 years as a print publication, The Chicago Reporter will focus its reporting about race, poverty and income inequality online.
Criminal Justice
Police reform law doesn’t fill all accountability gaps
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Legislation from Springfield mandates new requirements for Chicago officers, but debate over policing continues unabated.
Editor's blog
Police shooting video highlights importance of accountability
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The video of a Chicago police officer shooting into a car of unarmed black teenagers scratches the surface of deep problems with policing.
From the Editor
Public Ed fund, private role: analysis
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The Chicago Public Education Fund supports projects meant to be scaled up as part of the school system. In recent years, it has also paid consultants to conduct searches for top district staff and to help develop plans for the district. Its board includes some of the richest and most influential people in the city. No one outside The Fund’s staff and board of directors know how it decides which programs to support, what the results have been and how or whether the results are communicated to CPS.
Criminal Justice
To honor shooting victim Hadiya Pendleton, we need more than a park
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A much better way to honor Hadiya would be to stop the shootings in the North Kenwood neighborhood where she was shot—and end gun violence in other communities across the city. Renaming a playlot just doesn’t seem good enough.
Editor's Blog
When Chicago elected its first black mayor
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Managing editor Deborah L. Shelton relives her generation’s Obama Moment.