Melee shatters an oasis for teens
The Agape Community Center in Roseland has long been a sanctuary, a refuge for students who want to finish their homework, take Bible study courses or simply escape the chaotic...
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Melee shatters an oasis for teens
The Agape Community Center in Roseland has long been a sanctuary, a refuge for students who want to finish their homework, take Bible study courses or simply escape the chaotic...
Principal: Whitney Young not target
The principal of a school that's part of a federal probe into admissions practices at the city's elite public high schools said Wednesday that she has testified before a grand...
Huberman strategy takes aim at violence
Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman says he thinks he has found the 200 students most likely to end up shot and wants to connect them with full-time mentors and...
Rejected with straight A’s
When Celia Hensey applied to Walter Payton College Prep last year, she felt confident she'd get into the top-flight Chicago public school. The Hyde Park teenager was a straight-A student...
Mixed bag for state test scores
Preliminary results from the most recent state achievement exams hold good news and bad news for Illinois schools. Elementary students posted modest gains on the 2009 exams, continuing an upward...
Alderman faces city schools investigation
Chicago Public Schools' inspector general is investigating whether rules were violated when Ald. Ricardo Munoz (22nd) intervened to help a relative whose test scores weren't high enough to get into...
Feds target admission ties
Federal investigators are trying to determine whether public officials clouted students into Chicago's highly competitive selective enrollment high schools, according to a subpoena the Tribune obtained Thursday. The July 21...
City schools chief’s aide linked to probe
The relative of a top aide to Chicago Board of Education President Michael Scott got into prestigious Whitney Young High School through back channels before withdrawing after questions arose, in...
Federal investigation targets Chicago Public Schools
Federal authorities have launched an investigation into the admissions practices at Chicago's selective enrollment schools, the Chicago Tribune has learned. Federal officials recently served a grand jury subpoena on Chicago...