2 `musts' if school reform is to succeed

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 14, 1989 ;     565 words ......recently enacted school reform legislation was...organizations that made school reform a reality. The...real battle for school reform is now beginning...to ensure that school reform now leads to improved...implementation of school reform at the local ...

Groups join in push for legislative school reform

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 11, 1988 ;     323 words ...More than two dozen school and community organizations...legislators to pass a school reform plan. "This campaign...political battle for school reform - for decent schools...group, Campaign for School Reform. The group includes...Schools Committee, the Chicago Teachers ...

It's time to take city school funding back to the...

Crain's Chicago Business;  October 1, 2007 ;     461 words ......publisher of Catalyst Chicago, a publication of the...Society that covers school reform. City, school and union officials...beginning of serious school reform. They got both. Black...summit that spawned the Chicago School Reform Act of 1988. For months...out a ...

State lawmakers glimpse school reform firsthand

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 1, 1990 ;     362 words ......to discuss the address and Chicago school reform. "We thought the best way for legislators...chance to see the results of Chicago school reform. "This helped some legislators see that many students in Chicago schools are learning," said Rep. Monique...Lopez noted, are trying to ...

H.H. Sheikh Nahayan Mubarak Al-Nahayan opens School Reform conference in...

Al Bawaba;  April 18, 2007 ;     515 words ...The first-of-its-kind School Reform conference being organised by...and researchers in the field of school reform. The discussions will include...around the world. The theme of the School Reform conference is 'Challenges and...

School reform needs quick fix

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 16, 1990 ;     247 words ......goes. Good advice. But Chicago's School Reform Act is broke, it needs to be fixed...There should be no need to make Chicago schools wait while the Legislature goes into...School Board the best guarantee that school reform won't slow down. The only part of...thoroughgoing ...

2,500 at rally demand school reform measure

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 7, 1988 ;     188 words ......the Bismarck Hotel Monday night at a rally for tough school reform legislation. The 90-minute meeting, at times raucous, was sponsored by the Alliance for Better Chicago Schools, a coalition of more than 30 community and business groups...civic and business groups that have been pushing for ...

So far, school reform meets principal goals

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 1, 1990 ;     302 words ......racism and other growing pains of school reform. But isn't all this also what the...aspect of reform is all about? If Chicago schools weren't in such a sorry mess, there...principals, who all lost tenure in the school reform law. Ever since the local councils...reasons? Of course. ...

Streamline school reform plan

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 3, 1988 ;     406 words ......reviews of the Education Summit's public school reform plan for Chicago should warn Summit...programs. The plan needs that emphasis. If Chicago schools don't reach out earlier to children...national achievement norms? Before Chicago schools ask for extra help from the Legislature...

Simon Suggests School Reforms to Incoming Chicago Schools Chief

U.S. Newswire;  July 26, 1993 ;     497 words ...CHICAGO, July 26 /U.S. Newswire...series of private visits to Chicago schools -- 12 visits since January...teachers, administrators, school reform groups, business leaders...and offers to work with school officials in developing...chief executive of the school. Give principals ...

School Reform Behind the Scenes

The Journal of Negro Education;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...School Reform Behind the Scenes, by Joseph P. McDonald...needed to rethink public education. In School Reform Behind the Scenes, the authors give...opportunities for "all" Americans as related to school reform. Yet, the authors are not explicit...

School reform unit urged // Power to shut classes sought

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 7, 1988 ;     227 words ......demands for guarantees that any additional funding for Chicago schools would be well spent. The panel would be modeled after the...panel would have the power to approve or reject the board's school reform implementation plans and to monitor and evaluate implementation...

Education secretary lauds city school reform

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 12, 1998 ;     298 words ......Secretary William Bennett declared Chicago schools the worst in the nation, the current...anniversary of the signing of the Chicago School Reform Law, Richard Riley praised the strong...educators who helped give birth to school reform, Chicago-style. "You've become a model...

Howard professor stresses need for school reform

New Pittsburgh Courier;  February 6, 1999 ;     555 words ...Howard professor stresses need for school reform by Treshea N. Wade Courier Staff Writer...learn how they can become catalysts for school reform. Pitt's Institute for Practice and...second in a series of colloquiums on "School Reform in Low Income Communities," Feb. 3...

Chicago: a school reform laboratory

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 10, 1989 ;     439 words ......experts across the nation have their eyes on Chicago's school reform to see if they can learn a lesson from its mistakes and...William J. Bennett, who as secretary of education called Chicago schools "the nation's worst," now monitors school reform efforts nationally. No other big ...