Who is Corey H.? - The Chicago Reporter
2005年8月4日 · Who is Corey H.? Ten years ago, a school reform group teamed up with a university legal clinic to sue Chicago Public Schools and the state for illegally segregating special education students. Corey H. is one of several children with disabilities named in the lawsuit brought on behalf of all the city’s special education students.
The Conservative Vice Lords - The Chicago Reporter
2012年6月27日 · The Conservative Vice Lords. by Chicago Reporter June 27, 2012. Photos from the exhibit titled "Report to the Public: An Untold History of the Conservative Vice Lords" are displayed at the Art In These Times in Logan Square. The exhibit will run through Dec. 31. Take a trip down memory lane as we step back into North Lawndale’s past and ...
The Chicago Reporter welcomes Katherine Schulder-Battis
2023年12月22日 · Katherine “Katie” Schulder-Battis joins The Chicago Reporter to fill the position of Multimedia Editor/Investigations Reporter. While new to the team her name and work may strike a familiar chord. Last year, Katie moved from Brooklyn to earn an MSJ at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism with a concentration in Social ...
Revisiting the ‘Hornets’ - The Chicago Reporter
2015年3月13日 · The “Hornets,” as the kids called it, sat within walking distance of the Loop, and yet wallowed in utter isolation. The projects were a world unto themselves. Outsiders rarely set foot in them. Even our city’s leaders were clueless. In 1989, then-Mayor Richard M. Daley held a press conference to assail water bill deadbeats, the largest ...
History of Chicago Public Schools - The Chicago Reporter
1854. John Dore, a Boston teacher and principal, becomes Chicago’s first school superintendent. 1870. Public school enrollment stands at more than 27,000 students. 1872. Illinois creates the Chicago Board of Education. Members will be appointed by the mayor to oversee the city’s public education system. 1897.
Chicago’s Urban Prep Academy - The Chicago Reporter
2019年5月23日 · When I joined Urban Prep Academies in 2006 as the founding math teacher at what was to become the nation’s first all-boys public charter high school, the school’s faculty and staff had one central goal.. We were on a mission to get black boys from Englewood – a racially segregated and economically distressed neighborhood in Chicago, and a community described in the media as one of the ...
Montefiore now a school without students but, says CPS, it is not ...
2015年8月12日 · Credit: Photo by Meg Anderson. CPS says it did not close the Moses Montefiore specialty school, the last remaining district-run elementary school for students with profound emotional and behavioral disabilities. But this fall there will be no students enrolled in the school, located in the gentrifying Near West Side.
Tom Emery, Author at The Chicago Reporter
2023年2月17日 · Black History Month: A Look Back At The Fight For Education Equality In Illinois During The Civil War Era. by Tom Emery February 17, 2023. Equality in education was an issue in Illinois even before the Civil War. After the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the end of the war, many took up the challenge of equal opportunity in public education.
Arab Community has Deep Roots in Chicago
2007年9月24日 · Arab Community has Deep Roots in Chicago. by Mary Abowd September 24, 2007. Although often portrayed as a new and foreign element, Arabs have been a part of Chicago since the first large wave of Arab immigration to the United States occurred between 1899 and 1921, according to Louise Cainkar, a fellow with the University of Illinois at Chicago ...
About - The Chicago Reporter
The Reporter was founded in 1972 by John A. McDermott to measure Chicago’s progress toward racial equality as the civil rights era ended. Since its inception, it has been housed at the Community Renewal Society, a faith-based social justice organization. As one of America’s most segregated cities, Chicago continues to experience racial and economic inequality. The […]