The state budget standoff jeopardizes college access & affordability for low-income, first-generation students who depend most heavily on state aid and publicly funded universities like Chicago State.
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Words are their weapons
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Each year Louder Than a Bomb puts more than 1,000 young poets from Chicago-area middle and high schools together in a furious battle of words that validates and celebrates their view of the world. Here are some of their works.
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Wreck-It-Rahm
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A poem by David Holmes, Alicia Hinton, Dallas Battle and Kenyatta Tolbert, aka Team Englewood.
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A natural history of the queer black body
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A poem by Dominique Chestand, a teaching artist with Young Chicago Authors.
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TCR Talks: Revamping education in the community, not the classroom
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Tired of seeing young black men fall behind academically, Phillip Jackson wants to overturn the education system that leaves them there.
Issues visualized
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In June, we exhibited some of our photojournalism fellows’ best work documenting the region’s ongoing struggle with racial and economic inequality. If you missed the event, you can still view and purchase their work online.
From the Archives
On the map for education coverage
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It was just three paragraphs, but the conclusion of Sharon McGowan’s 1976 school funding investigation caused a political stir in Illinois. McGowan had discovered that $85.5 million in federal funding earmarked to help Chicago’s 212,434 “poverty children” in the 1974-75 school year had been instead spent for general purposes throughout the public school district. The fund, created by Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, was intended to improve academic performance at schools with a high percentage of low-income students, most of whom were black. “I made a mistake in not realizing that it was the most important part of the story. It would have been better in retrospect if I had led with that,” said McGowan, now the editor-in-chief of the Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.
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When South Shore’s grades went south
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Ann Grimes and Laura S. Washington were no strangers to taking on a challenging project, but when TV producer Scott Craig asked The Chicago Reporter to collaborate with him on a full-scale investigation into Chicago Public Schools, the duo found that it was trying from the get-go. The task: Find an “average” Chicago high school. Not the best, nor the worst, to paint a fair depiction of the city’s public schools. Grimes and Washington found South Shore High School, a place with both inadequacies and progress–in test scores, vocational training and other programs.
When they rolled into South Shore, cameras and a production crew in tow, then-Principal William Marshall was cooperative but defensive. Though the reporters’ decision to investigate the high school was motivated by a desire to be fair and balanced, many were suspicious.