World & Nation
Lawndale is a poor place west of Chicago’s downtown Loop business district, a preserve of familiar urban American ills.
Nov. 24, 1988
The Chicago Teachers Union has backed an agreement dictating COVID-19 safety protocols in the nation’s third-largest school district.
Jan. 12, 2022
California
The Los Angeles school district is struggling with ways to revamp itself, but the nation’s two other giant public education systems years ago settled on quite different roads to reform, with less-than-satisfactory results.
May 19, 1993
Inside a bleak storefront on Chicago’s South Side, the children recite a different pledge of allegiance: “We are African people, struggling for national liberation.
Sept. 15, 1991
Across the U.S., COVID-19 relief money is helping subsidize growing numbers of big-city schools with small numbers of students.
Aug. 1, 2022
Chicago’s ambitious school reform process, which handed control of each school to a local elected council, became quickly mired in controversy last month when protests erupted at a number of schools over the dismissal of principals.
March 28, 1990
Chicago residents elected local school councils as part of reforms that will give parents more control of an education system labeled the worst in the nation.
Oct. 12, 1989
When Los Angeles school trustees announce this week the hiring of a new top administrator to regain control of the vast district, they will undoubtedly say the occasion represents a fresh start and a promising opportunity to make progress.
Nov. 1, 1999
More Latino children are attending segregated schools in the United States than before, while segregation of black students is virtually unchanged from the early 1970s, a new study concludes.
July 27, 1987
Politics
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, who dramatically changed education policy in schools and colleges across the nation, is resigning in December.
Oct. 2, 2015