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Rev. Jesse Jackson (left) attended Wednesday's board
Board votes unanimously to close, restaff schools
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The vote comes after months of protests from parents, teachers and activists and a spate of final pleas to board members to save the schools. more
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February, 22, 2012
Chicago’s school board voted unanimously late Wednesday to close seven schools and completely re-staff 10 others. The vote comes after months of protests from parents, teachers and activists and a spate of final pleas to board members to save the schools.People began lining up at CPS headquarters 4...
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February, 22, 2012
MIAMI — Crimes and homicides in public schools nationwide have declined, part of a downward trend seen over the past several years.Data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Education and the Department of Justice show declines across a number of indicators, including thefts, violent crimes...
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February, 22, 2012
On this day in 1965, Chicago got its first, full-fledged public university. The University of Illinois' Chicago Circle campus was dedicated.The university had been founded at Urbana in 1867. The first Chicago branch opened in 1946 at Navy Pier--"Harvard on the Rocks," the students called it. But...
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February, 22, 2012
The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday is scheduled to vote on proposals to close or completely restaff 17 schools. That would make more than 100 the district has shut down or restaffed in the last decade. School officials say their approach gives students in poorly performing schools more...
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February, 22, 2012
Chicago’s school board is set to vote Wednesday on shutting down or completely re-staffing 17 schools.There’s been a flurry of additional debate on the issue in the last 24 hours. Chicago aldermen interrogated school officials for hours Tuesday about their plans to close or turn around the schools...
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February, 21, 2012
Chicago’s Malcom X College is slated for a new, $251 million campus building to train students for careers in health care, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday.It’s part of the mayor’s $479 million “College to Careers” initiative to update the seven city colleges over the next five years and move their...
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