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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

Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s Departing Mayor, in His Own Words

CHICAGO ... that he catered to rich downtown interests and not to the ordinary residents or struggling neighborhoods. “I know my personal background, and I get it,” he continued. “But when you look at ... 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

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

First Latina state school superintendent's goals for equity, preschool, state tests

and I hope that as people get to know me, get to know my experiences, my backgrounds and how my decisions are made, they will learn that I'm going to do a good job for the kids in Illinois." Ayala ... 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

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

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

How did a CPS high school get in line for a $13M gym to lure a star basketball coach? All one of Rahm Emanuel’s campaign donors had to do was ask.

He requested that Chicago Public Schools spend $12 million to build a new gym at Phillips Academy ... Adams said he hasn’t talked to Koldyke about the idea since. “This is my job. I don’t know ... 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