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Cash-Strapped Chicago School System Spent Millions on Junk Food

Chicago Public Schools spent millions of dollars to bring in food and beverages from area restaurants and catering companies, including more than $500,000 since July, and now the district says it crafted new guidelines because "no clear rules" were in place. read more

Chicago school system plans to borrow up to $389 million

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago's cash-strapped public school system ... and junk bond ratings for Chicago Public Schools. The planned borrowing follows Republican Governor Bruce Rauner's veto in December of legislation that would have funneled $215 million ... read more

What are grammar schools and why are they controversial?

Critics of the government’s latest move say the money would be better spent helping cash-strapped comprehensive schools. What do supporters say ... singer Scott Hutchison have found a body. Junk food ads face ban on Tube and buses across London Junk ... read more

Big American sports leagues are pushing junk food on kids, study finds

Kids and teens are seeing a lot of junk food ... system used to identify products that can be advertised to children in Britain and Australia. The study used Nielsen audience data for televised sports events in 2015. PepsiCo agreed in 2011 to pay $90 ... read more

Teachers Call On McDonald’s To End McTeacher’s Nights

Today, groups and unions representing some 3 million ... cash-strapped schools to market its junk food brand, while miring its workers in poverty, effectively hollowing out the tax base for our schools,” said Jesse Sharkey, Vice President of the Chicago ... read more

Remembering and celebrating incarcerated mothers on Mother’s Day

Fulbright and her daughters would laugh, and catch up, and munch on a Mother's Day meal of overpriced junk food from the ... of Cook County Jail in Chicago. Organizer Monica Cosby, a formerly incarcerated mother of three who spent 20 years behind bars ... read more

The fast-food industry’s $4.2 billion marketing blitz

And it is in the cafeteria, I think, where the fast-food industry’s marketing efforts could be effectively rebuffed. Unfortunately, I don’t have much good news here, either. Currently, we spend ... But when cash-strapped parents and school districts ... read more

The Invisible Helping Hand

Chef Max Hardy grills at a Food ... broken system with a standing ovation. It may not have helped that the pitch came from a group of University of Chicago economists, whose ranks include libertarian extremists like Milton Friedman (of school voucher ... read more

Emanuel: CPS likely to borrow against extra $45 million property tax increase

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Monday that cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools is likely to borrow against a $45 million property tax increase he ... and capability to actually make a modern school system,” said Emanuel, who appoints the Chicago Board ... read more

What If Women Were in Charge of the Debt Talks?

Triple the tax on junk food and sugared drinks. Put more money into the education system. That means increasing teacher salaries and giving them a budget to spend money at the local level for school supplies. It's completely absurd that cash-strapped ... read more