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Current and former employees allege the organization is allowing health inequities to persist by deprioritizing its South Side locations and fighting the new union.
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Donatta Yates started her career as a social studies teacher at Fenger High in Chicago, came to District 218 in 1970 and became principal at Eisenhower High School in Blue Island in 1979.
Cities Barack Obama has exploited his youthful stint as a Chicago community organizer at every stage of his political career. As someone who had worked for grassroots “change,” he said, he was a different kind of politician, one who could translate people’s hopes into reality. The media lapped up this conceit, presenting Obama’s organizing experience as a meaningful qualification for the Oval Office. This past September, a cell-phone video of Chicago students beating a fellow teen to death coursed over the airwaves and across the Internet. None of the news outlets that had admiringly ...
Rare interviews and newly discovered photos recall the victims of Richard Speck's rampage as the 50th anniversary approaches.
Dozier also is committed to giving her kids a chance at a better future. >> you guys look so cute. oh, my god! one, two, three, take like three or four. >> unlike charter schools, fenger high accepts all students. >> so at this time, i would like our 100th graduating class to turn your tassles from left to right. you have officially graduated from high school. >> fenger's graduation rate is 50%, which is an improvement from 2012. in 2013, more students are also going to college, but liz knows there's much more work to be done. >> my brain is already in next year. i wrapped this up three months...