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.
Perspectives: The Powers That Be
School closing and opening pattern shows Chicago doesn’t have a plan
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An ideological agenda for more “school choice” seems to be driving the district’s actions rather than what’s needed on the ground.
TCR Talks
Oscar López Rivera returns home to Chicago – and to a movement
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After 35 years in prison, the controversial Puerto Rican nationalist has become an emblem of the island’s struggle for self-determination.
school closings
Privately run alternative school now at Montefiore
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Over the summer, CPS quietly allowed a privately run alternative schools group to consolidate its three campuses and move into the Montefiore building, in the city’s Near West Side neighborhood. There are no students or teachers at the Montefiore specialty school but CPS officials say it’s still open.
alternative schools
Mixing profits and performance at alternative schools
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As Chicago quickly expands alternative schools with new, mostly online ventures, it’s clear that altruism is heavily mixed with profit-making savvy, according to a Catalyst Chicago/WBEZ investigation.
Catalyst Chicago
Options schools raise questions of quality
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A Catalyst Chicago/WBEZ investigation has found that the district is turning to new, largely unproven, mostly online alternative high schools to educate more students, raising questions about the quality of education these students receive.
alternative schools
Latino Youth Alternative School teachers to vote on union contract
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Nearly five years after they started organizing to form a union, teachers at the alternative Latino Youth High School in Pilsen say they’re preparing to vote on their first labor contract.
Catalyst Chicago
Threatened with expulsion
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CPS says it wants to lower expulsions. But a new policy allows schools to send students threatened with expulsion directly to alternative schools, even before a legal hearing.
alternative schools
Charters delay opening while new alternative schools forge ahead
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CPS is forging headfirst into the opening of new alternative schools, while a few of the charter schools that were supposed to open in September got more time to get ready.
alternative schools
Seven more alternative schools, 2,500 more seats for dropouts planned
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Less than a year after expanding the number of alternative schools run by outside groups, CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett proposed opening another seven campuses and increasing enrollment at four existing schools to serve a total of 2,500 more dropouts.