A coalition of community organizations contend the center will compound President Donald Trump’s “multi-pronged attack” on communities of color and expand the Chicago Police Department’s “capacity for violence.”
A plan approved in May is set to take effect soon, forcing high school seniors to either be enlisted in the military, have a job, be enrolled in a gap-year program, or have a college acceptance letter before getting their diploma.
(Opinion) -- Chicago, Illinois, has a chronic inflated state problem disguised as a schooling problem. In order to eradicate the symptom, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has decided to attack those who suffer from it and not the actual root of the problem — adopting a classic “more of the same” approach. A plan approved in May is set to take
Emanuel blamed the higher murder rate on officers’ fear of cell phone videos of their actions going viral.”
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel says that cell phone video recordings of police officers are interfering with the officers’ ability to do their jobs … and that is why the
Not everyone, however, is applauding the not-so-groundbreaking technique.
In an effort to reduce crime on the streets of Chicago, the Chicago Police Department has expanded the use of foot patrols to 20 of the city’s most dangerous neighborhoods.
The surge of on-foot officers in Chicago first began in March. Twenty rookie officers were stationed in “
As schools are shuttered, high-stakes testing is succeeding in re-entrenching the poor and people of color as a permanent underclass.
The Chicago Board of Education has approved a plan to carry out the largest mass school closing in U.S. history. Last Wednesday the board voted to close 50 public schools,
