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Education reform is a moral duty

Education is a fundamental right, and the public good demands tax dollars are appropriated for that purpose. It is the central premise behind the...
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Home-Schooling vs Public Education

  • home schooling in Illinois
  • February 28, 2011
In Beverly Chicago, Julie Streeter, a mother of 7 is home-schooling her children. According to her, the parents should be the ones who decide what...
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PSAT for 11-9-10: Do something you haven't been able to do for 15 years

Substance News reports that the Chicago Board of Education will hold its first committee meeting since Mayor Daley took over the schools in 1995.A...
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The $26.1 billion bailout keeps states like Illinois hooked

Even community newspapers seem more inclined to employ compliant stenographers than editors and reporters. Consider an Aug. 19 blurb in a suburban...
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Obama, Pelosi use kids, teachers as human props while unions await their prizes

Remember the seething ridicule pointed at George W. Bush after the initial shock of 9/11? He was reading a book about a goat to a classroom of...
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A closer look at the Illinois State Board of Education's proposed bilingual program regulations

Expanding the existing K-12 law for bilingual education to include pre-K will undoubtedly have numerous effects on Chicago’s preschool...
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Chicago preschools may be required to offer bilingual programs

Currently, Chicago schools have the authority to decide whether or not to offer a bilingual program on an individual basis. Schools that do not...
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Illinois teachers' pension exposed to OTC derivatives portfolio

A news web site produced by graduate journalism students at Northwestern University is reporting that the Illinois teachers' pension fund has...
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Pension reform inexplicably is not on candidates' radar

If pension reform is not central to this November's gubernatorial showdown in Illinois, then we'll know that Democrat Governor Pat Quinn...
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It's always 'for the children'

The hypocrisy found at the intersection of educating children and paying for education would be hilarious if not for the economic crisis facing...
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