From the Archives
Pat Hill, black cop who championed police reform in Chicago, dies
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The retired police officer fought for fair treatment of black officers and fair policing of black communities.
Employment and Labor
A long fight for employment protections for domestic workers
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After decades of being excluded from labor standards, domestic workers in Illinois finally get their own Bill of Rights.
Catalyst Chicago
Noble founder talks expansion, discipline, diversity
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Noble’s founder and superintendent Michael Milkie shares his views on expansion, discipline, diversity and what it takes to improve Chicago high schools.
charter schools
Q&A: Chair DeRonda Williams talks State Charter Commission
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DeRonda Williams is taking the head of the four-year-old State Charter School Commission at an interesting time: It is about to consider the first-ever appeal from an existing charter school slated for closure by its district. First up: Three Chicago charters. In a Q&A with Catalyst Associate Editor Kalyn Belsha, Williams talks about a wide range of issues, including misconceptions, racial diversity and the Concept Schools investigation.
Catalyst Chicago
Q&A: Jesse Ruiz talks about leadership, public service
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In a recent interview, outgoing CPS School Board member Jesse Ruiz shared his views on public service and why he thinks the Board should discuss agenda items in public. He also talks about the lack of Latino leadership in CPS and why it was important to call for an audit of services to English language learners.
Catalyst Chicago
‘In decline since the ’70s’
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In a wide-ranging interview earlier this summer for our 25th anniversary issue, Pedro Noguera, a leading national voice on urban education, told Catalyst that these days “education is largely reproducing the inequities in society.”
TCR Talks
Resisting the Syrian regime from Chicago
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Ala’a Basatneh, aka #chicagoGirl, uses social media to coordinate protests driving the Syrian revolution.
Catalyst Chicago
Q & A: Charles Burbridge, Chicago Teachers Pension Fund
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The new executive director of the Chicago Teachers Pension Fund talks about the long history of pension woes, the impact of underfunding, and what he expects as the district’s payment deadline approaches.
Catalyst Chicago
Q&A with ISBE’s Tony Smith
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Tony Smith previously ran the school system in Oakland, Calif., and is the newly named state superintendent for Illinois. Melissa Sanchez talked to him about his vision for education, the role of testing, charters, finding teachers of color and whether CPS should declare bankruptcy.
Q&A
Talking in codes
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Ian Haney-López, a professor at the University of California at Berkeley and a leading scholar of critical race theory, talks with Editor and Publisher Susan Smith Richardson about his new book, “Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class.”