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Caref, Carol; Mayle, Kristine – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2015
This article describes how the Chicago schools system has been bedeviled by the social conditions faced by the city's inhabitants, and now by attempts to use privatization and school closures as the "solution" to those problems. The article describes how teachers in the Chicago Teachers' Union combined with community members to challenge…
Descriptors: Program Descriptions, Social Influences, Privatization, School Closing
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Meyer, Peter – Education Next, 2011
The idea that one of the Catholic Church's most respected religious orders might run a public school sounded odd, maybe even, as Francis Cardinal George, head of the Archdiocese of Chicago, conjectured, illegal. But a decade ago several trends in American education, and in the Catholic Church, made a Catholic-operated public school seem…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Catholics, Public Education, Neighborhood Schools
Stevens, David; Sporte, Sue; Stoelinga, Sara Ray; Bolz, Alissa – Consortium on Chicago School Research, 2008
For nearly a decade, the Chicago High School Redesign Initiative (CHSRI) has worked to improve educational opportunities for Chicago adolescents by opening and supporting small high schools across the city. While the overall results of the initiative have been mixed, several CHSRI schools have successfully improved students' outcomes. This latest…
Descriptors: High Schools, Educational Change, Educational Opportunities, Instructional Leadership