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Chicago students work to improve their schools, and find their voice along the way

As part of a shift in civics education, CPS is moving beyond facts and dates and toward helping students experience what it is like to create change.

Chicago Sun-Times

All Illinois middle schoolers must pass a civics education class. How do you make sure it sticks?

CPS discourages civics tests based on rote memorization. Try a quiz using that approach — and see what schools are doing now instead.

Chicago Sun-Times

Mayor, CPS honor high-achieving student ‘Champions’ as the ‘best part of who we are’

A team of app developers looking to ease college and career searches and a 9th-grade debater hoping to bridge policy and people were among the students honored. “You will help us all build a better, stronger and much-safer Chicago,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.

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Truancy officers would help prevent chronic absenteeism in Chicago Public Schools

Having to stand before a judge and explain why a child is not regularly attending school is a great deterrent to chronic school absenteeism, a retired police officer writes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ladbrokes and Coral owner to pay £585m to settle HMRC bribery inquiry

Gambling giant Entain reaches deal over past practice at company it owned in Turkey

The Guardian - UK

CPS must solve chronic absenteeism

Even prestigious schools like Northside College Prep and Payton College Prep have unacceptable chronic absenteeism of 25%, according to the Illinois Report Card.

Chicago Sun-Times

Former prison worker guilty of misconduct after prisoner’s death

The ‘high-risk’ prisoner was left unsupervised for significant periods of time and was able to take his own life.

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Uncertain future in a sea of poppies

Three districts in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan together contribute to 80% of India’s opium production. Already facing the problem of stagnant procurement rates and rising input prices, farmers are now angry with the Union government for opening opium production and processing to private players. A.M. Jigeesh talks to farmers in…

The Hindu

The teachers who started a museum

Carlos Tortolero and five other staffers from Bowen High School were disgusted with how Mexican culture was taught at CPS. So they did something about it.

Chicago Sun-Times

YouTuber given suspended sentence for anti-semitic abuse during livestream

The 44-year-old targeted a Jewish woman during his broadcast in September 2020, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

Evening Standard

YouTuber sentenced for antisemitic abuse during livestream, CPS says

The 44-year-old targeted a Jewish woman during his broadcast in September 2020, the Crown Prosecution Service said.

The Independent UK

With one year till Chicagoans elect the school board for the first time, here’s what’s still being worked out

Lawmakers haven’t settled on a voting map and floated a last-minute proposal to accelerate moving to a fully elected board.

Chicago Sun-Times

Parents face jail for child neglect after forcing kids to live in squalid conditions in Camden home

Parents lived in comfort while children were denied access to clothes, food and toys

Evening Standard

I was a CPS student in underserved neighborhoods, and I wasn’t prepared for college

Because the environment of a public school in an under-resourced neighborhood does not engage the minds of students, those who do enroll in college struggle, a former CPS student writes.

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CPS defends Dustin Black prosecution despite ‘weak’ case falling apart hours into trial

The Crown Prosecution Service said they believed there was a ‘realistic prospect of conviction’

Chicago Sun-Times

Incomplete grade? Chicago elected school board plan stalls amid House, Senate divisions

While the Illinois House on Wednesday approved a measure that would allow for the election of 10 board members and the appointment of 10 others by Mayor Brandon Johnson in 2024, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon said the plan includes “woefully inadequate ethical provisions” and said he would…

The Independent UK

Drunk father jailed for manslaughter of disabled son in motorway crash

Callum Rycroft , 12, had no speed awareness due to his disability and ‘should have been under the protection of his father’

The Independent UK

Two women charged under Terrorism Act over paraglider pictures at Pro-Palestine march

Heba Alhayey, 29, and Pauline Ankunda, 26, were arrested following an incident at a protest in London on 14 October

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Former CPS student awarded $150,000 in religious freedom suit over ‘Hinduistic’ meditation program

As a Christian, Mariyah Green felt “alone and angry” when her opinions about a meditation program weren’t respected and she was not given a choice about whether to participate, the lawsuit states.

The Conversation

Palestine protest arrests: why even police are confused about hate crime law

Though it’s happening thousands of miles away, the Israel-Gaza conflict has aggravated tensions in the UK. In London, authorities have recorded a 1,353% increase in antisemitic offences and a 140% increase in anti-Muslim offences during October compared to last year. In this emotionally charged environment, police have faced immense pressure…

Chicago Sun-Times

Bump in CPS grad rates hailed by mayor, education officials

The modest improvement from an 82% graduation rate in 2022 to 84% this year represents a continued increase since a decade ago, when it sat at 59%. Mayor Brandon Johnson and U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona lauded the achievement Tuesday.

The Independent UK

Metropolitan Police set to intervene over ‘jihad’ calls at Palestine protests

Officers set to act against anyone ‘calling for jihad specifically against Israel’

The Independent UK

Pete Doherty suggests meeting Mark Blanco’s mother to ‘move on’ from death

The rock star was interviewed by police but never arrested over the death.

Chicago Sun-Times

Ex-boyfriend of slain CPS special education teacher charged with attempted murder in shooting of state trooper

Cristobal Santana is accused of shooting a state trooper in the leg Wednesday in Springfield. The family of his ex-girlfriend allege he’s responsible for her shooting death Sunday in Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago Public Schools officials project $391 million deficit next year when COVID-19 relief funds run out

District leaders and Board of Education officials have warned of a financial cliff approaching next school year. Federal COVID-19 relief funds had papered over a structural deficit that officials estimate will reach $691 million. Only $300 million in federal funding is left to offset that,

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