Major changes in the language of white supremacists have happened in the last decade that provide a window into how the groups mobilize support, shape political perceptions and advance their cause.
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Students of color take biggest hit in Illinois higher education funding crisis
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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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Mix-up in poverty counts puts school budgets in jeopardy
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District officials are warning principals that their schools may lose poverty dollars due to an inexplicable undercount of low-income students this year.
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Low-income students left out of Illinois gifted programs: Report
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A report from a new Illinois education organization finds that low-income, black and Hispanic students are underrepresented in gifted programs in school districts.
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Most vulnerable CPS students suspended most often
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A new report from the Consortium on Chicago Schools Research offers a sobering look at racial disparities in disciplinary actions at CPS high schools. Among the findings: 30 percent of high school students with a documented history of being abused or neglected were suspended in the 2013-2014 school year.
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TCR Talks: Helping youth find a voice
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As Jeff McCarter made his way in the media industry, he noticed a lack of diversity. So in 2001, he founded Free Spirit Media, an organization that trains Chicago’s young people to tell their own stories.
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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.