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CPS wants pre-Labor Day start for school year
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 4 months ago
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January 19, 2013 5:10PM Chicago public schools will start classes on Aug. 26 this coming school year, ending a long-held practice of a post-Labor Day opening, under a proposal announced Friday. Classes will end on June 10; spring break will span
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Family claims Sacramento County violated disabled child's rights
Elk Grove :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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His regular emotional outbursts caused him to be shuffled from one foster home to the next, including one where he was kept in the garage...But their efforts to adopt Anthony and provide him with a home outside an institution nearly didn't happen
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CPS considering single school calendar
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 4 months ago
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Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune reporter Chicago Public Schools students would be on the same calendar in the coming year, one that begins Aug. 26 at least a week before most students now start school and ends June 10, under a proposal the Board of
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CPS CEO: Most High Schools, High-Performing Schools Won't Close
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 4 months ago
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The decision comes in light of CPS releasing a cumulative list containing 330 schools that are currently under-utilized for educational purposes and are subject to being shut down...A final list of recommended closings will be delivered to the Board
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Foster father due in court today in baby's death; details released
Fort Bragg :: NC :: USA | 4 months ago
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Ukiah Daily Journal While authorities still aren't saying much about the violent death of a 5-month-old baby girl in Fort Bragg, details have come to light about the events that led up to the December tragedy...Tubbs III, Updated: 01/17/2013 11:58:
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CPS student gains to make up 50% of principal evaluations
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 4 months ago
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Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune reporter Student achievement will now account for 50 percent of the evaluations given to principals in Chicago Public Schools. The student achievement portion of the new evaluation will be twice the minimum recommended by
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CPS chief agrees that high schools shouldn't be closed
Chicago :: IL :: USA | 4 months ago
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Speculation on which schools will be closed has been worrying parents and community groups since the district in December said it was working from a list of 330 schools that are underenrolled...Sources in September said Mayor Rahm Emanuel's
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Health & Disability Advocates Challenges the Chicago Public Schools for Failures to Provide Early Childhood Special Education Services
Ei :: Japan | 4 months ago
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bit.ly/hdausa" title="Health & Disability Advocates">Health & Disability Advocates, a national health, education and employment nonprofit based in Chicago, filed a formal class complaint alleging that the nation’s third largest public
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Tape of CTU president draws fire from right
Cook :: NE :: USA | 4 months ago
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Karen Lewis, in a speech at the Illinois Labor History Society's Salute to Labor's Historic Heroes from the History Makers of Today, compared labor's current situation with a more violent time. We are in a moment where the wealth disparity in this
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Watchdog: CPS too lax on ethics oversight of vendors
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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Ahmed-Ullah, Chicago Tribune reporter Despite a scandal last year that cost the district's top food executive her job, Chicago Public Schools has not done enough to stop vendors from skirting the rules to win contracts, CPS' inspector general said in
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