Hiring returning citizens is good for business
Even as the labor market tightens and more than 6 million U.S. jobs remain unfilled, the search for a job can be formidable. This process is exponentially worse for someone...
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School boycotts? Yes, parents must pressure Congress to pass smart gun laws
In the wake of another mass shooting at a public school, a colleague and I floated the idea of a parent boycott of schools to drive action by Congress. The...
Arne Duncan op-ed: Why post-high school planning matters
For much of the last 150 years, America out-educated most other nations in the world, which drove the world's strongest economy, built the middle class and made the American Dream...
How did Chicago get to this?
America has seen a side of Chicago that we all wish didn't exist. The graphic video of Fenger High School student Derrion Albert being fatally beaten is terrifying, heartbreaking and...
Military academies offer options
A few key facts would help assure readers of your story on Chicago's military academies that these schools serve a valuable educational role in our system ("Reading, writing, recruiting? Debate...
Kids are safest when they’re at school
A cartoon in the Sept. 2 Perspective section on the death of 34 Chicago Public Schools students last year could not have been more misleading. The cartoon implies that the...
Welcome school test gains
Dismissing Chicago's dramatic gains in state test scores because the passing score was lowered in just one of 14 tests administered is fundamentally unfair and misleading to the students and...
Making schools ones of choice
Your May 20 editorial "Avoiding school violence" misses some key points about how we have worked with schools that saw an increase in enrollment as a result of our phasing-out...
Avoiding classroom cuts and teacher layoffs
This is regarding "A remedial course in pensions," your Jan. 27 editorial opposing temporary pension relief for the Chicago Public Schools. I want to be absolutely clear: Deferring pension payments...
Teacher residency is an important requirement
This is in response to "City schools set to tighten rules on teacher residency" (Page 1, Oct. 26). Teaching excellence is one of the driving forces that have put the...