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Miracle worker in the school kitchen

On a recent winter day at a Chicago public ... of its schools. The district awards a single food service contract for its 600 schools, discouraging the kind of relatively small, nimble operation ... read more

Mom has to stay at school with kindergartner because CPS hasn’t provided nurse

So Krystal Miller took all of the necessary paperwork to school before summer break even began. A school nurse, a special education teacher, a caseworker and others from the Chicago Public Schools ... ... read more

Chicago Rising!

Only then were they able to arrive at some basic conclusions about a program that ate up no less than $455 million ... is not supposed to be possible, because teachers unions are said to be despised, ... read more

Newark Schools Spent $18,208 Per Pupil Last Year. So Why Are They In ‘Extreme Chronic Fiscal Distress?’

The public schools in Newark ... per child as traditional schools, but their school leaders have more freedom to spend that money as they see fit. “You find a way to make it work and cut out the ... read more

Union bosses' salaries put 'big' in Big Labor

“We don’t talk to newspaper ... In 2005, the Pennsylvania Public Employees Union paid $15,000 for “education of officers” at Fernwood Resort and Country Club. Last year, the United Steelworkers spent ... read more

How Des Moines schools' new director reinvented the school lunch

As soon as Amanda Miller, head of Des Moines Public Schools ... fed — broken liftgate or not. Miller's life has been marked by a deep love for both food and education. As the newly minted director of ... read more

Food Allergies: A Hidden Danger for Many Asian-American Kids

“But I don’t know how to read ... California’s leading food allergy advocates are also Asian-American. In 2014, Wong testified before the California State Senate in favor of SB1266, a bill requiring ... read more

Baby Talk Bonanza

She said her home visitor, the research coordinator from Suskind’s office, encouraged her to read to her daughter, and “maybe if I don’t know a word ... recess supervision and after-school activities ... read more

How a Vietnamese Refugee Is Rethinking Food Delivery in America

Because his parents were public school teachers ... which connect diners and restaurants online, don’t have significant fixed costs, because the restaurants make the food and in most cases deliver it ... read more

Inside the high-pressure world of N.J.'s hardest-to-get-into high schools

In a neighboring building, students in the Academy for Allied Health Sciences spend the ... and parents may not know they exist, these rigorous schools for some of the state's most ambitious students ... read more

The free lunch all our kids deserve: Why is NYC far behind so many other cities?

Thousands of families do not qualify for free school lunch, but they still earn too little to pay for it. Currently, parents and caregivers must spend ... $20 million, $11.25 million of which has ... read more

47th Ward candidate for alderman: Kimball Ladien

His political/civic background: In 1968, my first antiwar poem “Know Other Way,” was banned by the Lane Tech Prep. In many ways, I have spent ... not only our Schools, but entire Communities, into ... read more