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Some community leaders on Chicago’s West Side don’t like the way Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s administration is doling out funds in a $31 million program to combat Chicago-area youth violence. They wonder why aldermen are involved and why the pastor of Ald.

Friday was the first day back to school after two snow days in Chicago.Public school officials don’t have numbers yet, but there were lots of empty seats at some schools.Fifteen minutes before school started this morning, just 23 kids had shown up at Pershing West Middle School—which loo

It’s Thursday, and time for our Global Activism series. Each Thursday, we hear about an individual who’s decided to work to make the world a better place.Today, our segment is about Zimbabwe. And with us is one of our former Global Activists, Elizabeth Mhangami.

Sadiqa Basiri Saleem is co-founder of the Oruj Learning Center in Afghanistan.

Time again for another edition of Cheat Sheet – your quick and dirty guide to Chicago’s monthly school board meetings.

Cheat Sheet aired on Eight Forty-Eight Thursday morning: It's a quick and dirty guide to what just happened at the Board of Education.Audio from Cheat Sheet is here but you can hear raw audio from last night's meeting below.Click on "EXTRAS" to listen to unfilter

Chicago could add five new charter schools to the city if the Board of Education votes Wednesday to approve the schools.The Board had been slated to vote on the schools last month but yanked the proposals at the last minute, amid protests.Wednesday’s planned vote comes as supporters and detrac