Chicago Public Schools officials didn't hesitate to rail against the city's teachers union during Wednesday's budget presentation to the Chicago Board of Education, and board members were more than willing to provide top CPS officials with an opportunity to gripe.
I headed over to Michele Clark Academic Prep Magnet School to see if there were more issues at the school which may have lead up to Monday's tasing of student.
Chicago Public Schools and one of its powerful charter school operators are in a bidding war over a northwest side school building, and both are playing with fistfuls of public funds.
The Chicago Tribune has a database you can search to find how particular schools are performing based on test scores. They rank the schools and analyze the data to give you the top 50 and sometimes, the bottom 50. But what about those smack-dab in the middle?
The Third Coast International Audio Festival is picking a winner tomorrow for the Richard H. Dreihaus Foundation Competition. There are 9 finalists (they are all winners). At tomorrow's reception, they will rank who is a bigger winner, complete with top cash prizes.
A hot meeting in Roseland last night. It was a youth- led "ËœTown Hall' put on by the Roseland Safety Networks Coalition to address community tension that has followed the beating death of Fenger Academy honor student Derrion Albert.
