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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 craf... 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 ... 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,” ... 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 school... 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 ... Bu... 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 ... read more

Why Is My Kindergartner Being Groomed for the Military at School?

The Junior ROTC program targets middle school and high school students with military drills and training. In Chicago, the public school system is even experimenting ... There's also the $10.4 million ... 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 ... read more

New school lesson plan: Surviving the Internet

Professors designed the program - funded by a $1.7 million grant awarded by a federal judge as part of a class-action consumer-protection settlement over junk faxes - to teach ... friendly iPads at a ... read more

'This Week' Transcript: Crisis in the Classroom

AMANPOUR: Duncan, former CEO of the Chicago school system ... spent on this incredibly important bill over 10 years works out at seven cents per kid per day. You know, so I think my big worry is cash. ... read more

10 People Who Could Help Save Detroit

A one-time fashion model, Cooley attended film school in Chicago and traveled the world for two years ... which will be the focus of his organization. “We’ve spent millions of dollars on this demoliti... read more