Becky Vevea

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In Historic First, Lori Lightfoot Inaugurated As Chicago's Mayor

Monday, May 20, 2019

Lightfoot is the city's first black female and openly gay mayor. After her swearing in, she laid out a plan to make Chicago "a city that families want to move to, not run away from."

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Supporters Of A Chicago School Merger Hope To Stamp Out Segregation

Saturday, October 29, 2016

In Chicago, a plan to merge one of the wealthiest public schools with a nearby school serving mostly low income, black children has met with a "no" from school officials, but parents aren't giving up.

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Why America's Schools Have A Money Problem

Monday, April 18, 2016

How much money a school can spend on its students still depends, in large part, on local property taxes. And many states aren't doing much to level the field for poor kids.

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Why America's Schools Have A Money Problem

Monday, April 18, 2016

How much money a school can spend on its students still depends, in large part, on local property taxes. And many states aren't doing much to level the field for poor kids.

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Power Struggle Over Future Of Public Schools Heats Up In Chicago

Tuesday, February 09, 2016

The politics surrounding the future of Chicago's public school system are intensifying. Three different players are in a power struggle for control of the system, which is suffering financially.

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Former Chicago Schools Chief To Plead Guilty In $23 Million Kickback Scheme

Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Barbara Byrd-Bennett is expected to appear in court on Tuesday. She is accused of taking $2.3 million in kickbacks for steering no-bid contracts to a former employer.

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Admitting Dropouts Were Miscounted, Chicago Lowers Graduation Rates

Friday, October 02, 2015

Chicago Public Schools has lowered its official high school graduation rate following revelations that thousands of dropouts were being misclassified as transfers.

The official rate for 2014 was actually 66.3 percent, not 69.4 percent, officials said late Thursday. CPS also revised down the graduation rates for each year dating ...

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Graduation Rates: Chicago Says It Will Keep Better Track of At-Risk Students

Thursday, June 11, 2015

Chicago Public Schools have been mislabeling dropouts, getting them off the books and out of the graduation rate. CPS now says it will stop the practice.

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In Chicago, At-Risk Students Are Being Misclassified

Sunday, June 07, 2015

The US high school graduation rate is at an all-time high. But why? NPR Ed partnered with 14 member stations around the country to bring you the stories behind that number. Check out the whole story here. And find out what's happening in your state.

Five years ago, ...

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From The Classroom To The Campaign Trail

Tuesday, February 03, 2015

It's a frigid, 9-degree day and Susan Sadlowski Garza is trudging through fresh snow in Chicago's 10th Ward.

"Hi, good morning. How are you? My name is Sue Sadlowski Garza, I'm running for alderman," Garza says to a woman who has just cracked open her front door.

Garza is the ...

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Librarians Are A Luxury Chicago Public Schools Can't Afford

Monday, September 01, 2014

Librarians are being reassigned to classrooms. In Illinois, librarians must also have teaching certifications, and most have endorsements to teach specific grades and subjects.

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What A Common Core Lesson Sounds Like In A 10th-Grade English Class

Friday, July 25, 2014

The Common Core State Standards in literacy and math have generated lots of attention and controversy, but what do they look and sound like in a classroom?

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Chicago Teachers Strike

Monday, September 10, 2012

Thousands of teachers are on strike in Chicago after the teachers union and the city's education officials failed to reach an agreement on contract negotiations by midnight last night.

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