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Hey, future teachers! Want a virtual guarantee of acing your mandatory edTPA assessment, something required to gain licensure to teach in Illinois and several other states? Come to NIU. One hundred percent of NIU undergraduate students in teacher...

by Bob Simpson When you wage war on the public schools, you’re attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You’re not a conservative, you’re a vandal.” —Garrison Keeler The 2013 Chicago Public Schools(CPS) budget...

This year, Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard helped Chicago teachers accomplish the impossible. Under a new Illinois law, the Chicago Teachers Union has to get a 75 percent vote of its entire membership (not just those voting) to call a...

Francis Howell Journalist awarded Alexis Christo, a 2013 Francis Howell North (FHN) alumna, was recently named the High School Print Winner in the 2013 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards Competition. Christo will be honored on Sept. 26 in Washington...

As the new school year begins in Chicago, Lee Sustar reports on the background to the Chicago Teachers Union's fight for a new contract--and to defend public schools. CTU members protest against a school system that's "broke on purpose" (Bob Simpson...