Diverse neighborhoods, segregated schools

Dec. 17, 2010
In neighborhoods across Chicago where development and gentrification have taken hold, middle-income families are staying in the city and raising children. But there’s one aspect of city life many have been slow to embrace: their nearby public school.

New admissions criteria for top Chicago schools

Nov. 5, 2010
More than four weeks into the application period, Chicago Public Schools finally laid out the admissions criteria for its vaunted magnet and selective enrollment schools Thursday.The new policy makes a handful of significant modifications to a complex formula the school district came up with last ye