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The do-nothing caucus
Last fall on this page, we endorsed candidates for the Illinois House based largely on their fiscal policies. Illinois is beyond a crisis point; its lawmakers need to find solutions. So: Were candidates willing to enact serious pension reform? Cut state...
Tags: Anthony DeLuca, Chad, Louis I Lang, Interior Policy, Camille Y. Lilly
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Valley View rejects online charter school proposal
Valley View School District board members have rejected a proposal for an online charter school in the district. The Virtual Charter School @ Fox River Valley has recently submitted proposals to about 18 districts throughout the south and west suburbs....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Chicago Charter Schools
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D202 opposes plan for online charter school
Plainfield school officials lined up Monday with neighboring districts to reject a proposal for an online charter school. The virtual school would serve students from 18 school districts, including Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202....
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Mike Kelly, Credit and Debt, Justice System
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Naperville D203 rejects plan for online school
Naperville District 203 school board members rejected a proposal for an online charter school in the district at Monday's school board meeting. "There are many reasons to deny the application of the Illinois Virtual Charter School," said board member...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Springfield, Students, Chicago Charter Schools
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West suburban districts lining up against online charter school
School districts in the western suburbs are lining up against a proposal to open an online charter school that they say is not in the best interests of students or taxpayers. That might leave a state commission to decide whether students will be signing...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Students, Geneva (Seminole, Florida), Credit and Debt, Justice System
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Move to lower mandatory school age faces 'uphill climb'
To address a devastating pattern of elementary-grade absenteeism in Chicago Public Schools and across the state, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn have thrown their support behind legislation to lower Illinois' compulsory attendance age from 7 to 6 or...
Tags: Chicago Mayor, Teaching and Learning, Illinois Governor, Barbara Flynn Currie, Maywood (Cook, Illinois)
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CPS head targets K-8 'dropout pipeline'
Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett vowed Monday to move forcefully to address the city's crisis in K-8 truancy and absenteeism, declaring: "We must work to shut down the dropout pipeline." She said that "while the district has not fully...Tags: Union League Club, Chicago Mayor, Teaching and Learning, Barbara Flynn Currie, Executive Branch
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Authorities seek solutions for K-8 absenteeism in Chicago schools
As authorities move to address K-8 absenteeism and truancy in Chicago schools, where tens of thousands of elementary students miss a month or more of school each year, they may not have to look far for workable strategies. Government agencies and...
Tags: Jacqueline Y. Collins, Juvenile Delinquency, Teaching and Learning, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Conservation
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Panel seeks solutions to school absenteeism
Tribune reportersAt a West Side town hall meeting Saturday, a panel of elected officials and community activists decried Chicago’s crisis in elementary grade truancy and absenteeism, and vowed to work on reforms that could save countless children from failure in...Tags: Civil Rights, Juvenile Delinquency, NAACP, Housing and Urban Planning, Public Officials
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CPS head, lawmaker vow to work on truancy after Tribune series
Tribune reporterA top state lawmaker and the head of the Chicago Public schools on Monday vowed to support a high-level task force aimed at combating the crisis in K-8 grade absenteeism and truancy exposed by a recent Tribune series. Speaking at a drop-out prevention...Tags: Union League Club, Government, Chicago Mayor, Chicago Public Schools, Barbara Flynn Currie
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Legislator seeks truancy task force for Chicago schools
Tribune reportersState Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia today introduced legislation to create a task force to "address the truancy and excessive absences epidemic" in Chicago's public elementary schools. The resolution creating the panel would have to be approved by the state...Tags: Chicago Mayor, Teaching and Learning, Illinois Governor, Executive Branch, Pat Quinn
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Quinn, state lawmakers react to K-8 truancy crisis in CPS
Gov. Pat Quinn, state lawmakers and Chicago officials on Monday moved emphatically to address a crisis in elementary-age truancy in city schools exposed by a recent Chicago Tribune investigation. State Rep. Linda Chapa LaVia, D-Aurora, who chairs the...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Illinois Governor, Chicago Public Schools, Robert W. Pritchard, Pat Quinn
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Dec 11, 2012
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Dec 26, 2012
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Nov 27, 2012
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Nov 19, 2012
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