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Chicago’s Public Schools Spent Millions on Catered Food But Don’t Know Who Ate It

The Chicago public school system, like so many others across the nation, is excruciatingly strapped for cash. In fact, the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools, Forrest Claypool, describes the school sys... 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

Tossing a Bird That Does Not Fly Out of a Plane

Yellville’s mayor would not comment for the story, a receptionist told me, because the town had nothing to do with it. “It’s a private event put on by private groups,” she said—never mind the fact tha... read more

CPS official accused of taking gifts from food vendors is named

The chief of food services at Chicago Public Schools ... to have spent lavishly on Esaian and purchased dozens of meals for her at various restaurants. Preferred spokesman Ken Trantowski declined to a... read more

Bill Ayers Talks Obama, Nelson Mandela, and Toni Preckwinkle

Bill Ayers ... to know what’s true.’ The book that I can’t put down is [James McBride’s] Good Lord Bird. This book is unbelievable; about John Brown through the eyes of a 12-year-old slave boy. We loo... 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

In Defense of Food: Transcript

I had spent a lot of time writing articles and books tracing the food chain ... of the public schools. Bill Peacock in scene: All right listen up. Advanced culinary guys, that’s you, you and you. If t... 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 alre... read more

Girl in the Shadows: Dasani’s Homeless Life

Yet rents were impossibly high in the city, and a quarter-million people were waiting for the rare vacancy in public housing ... writing in hurried print, “I don’t know what to do my kid start school ... read more

I Can Schools believes in big dreams

... could propel the I Can Schools network beyond Ohio and into urban strongholds such as Detroit and Chicago, which, like Cleveland, have stomached public school closures and are thirsty for other ed... read more

Where Blankfein came from

He applied to Harvard Law School and was accepted, although he chalked it up to a predilection for accepting students at the law school from Harvard undergrad. “I don’t know ... million in August 2010 ... read more

Don't invite illness to your Thanksgiving table, as CDC investigates salmonella outbreak linked to turkey

There's either cross-contamination going on in the home, or there's not thorough cooking." Other experts contend that simply telling consumers to handle food properly ... of School Board (IASB) reject... read more