By Curtis Black, Newstips Editor Fifteen students, most of them from Orr High School, sat around a storefront in Humboldt Park last Wednesday night, taking turns role-playing situations encountered by security guards in their school – and discussing better and worse ways of handling them. One student, portraying a guard, watched an argument between two...
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Despite heartfelt pleas from students, parents and faculty, Phillips High School, located on Chicago’s South Side, will be closed. The school, after a full turnaround, will reopen next school year with a new principal and staff. Phillips, located at at 244 E. Pershing Road, has been placed in the care of the Academy of Urban...
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On Thursday, May 20, Parker Elementary Community Academy will be performing for the first time “The Wiz that Wuz.” Youth Guidance Resource Coordinator Ben White said he was inspired to create this condensed version based on the popular African-American play “The Wiz” because he wanted to stress the importance of believing in yourself for...
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On March 24, Chicago Talent Development High School students, assisted by City Year Chicago and AmeriCorps team members, participated in an in-school service project focused on creating non-violence awareness within the West Garfield Park neighborhood.
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When the final bell rings, high school students rush to the nearest door, excited to head home, hang out with friends, watch television and eat a home-cooked meal with their families. But 19-year-old Niaesha Shivers isn’t one of them. She is one of nearly 13,000 Chicago Public School students who is homeless. For the...
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Local school councils are out, Renaissance 2010 is in, and the fight against the machine has only begun. Activists and experts have taken a stand to bring back public schools and public involvement in education; they said they are fighting for their voice. Pauline Lipman, policy studies professor at the University of Illinois at...
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Sharon Morgan sits at her desk surrounded by piles of paperwork and a cup of Dunkin Donuts coffee. As she shuffles through the paperwork, she marks her calendar on the day where she plans to speak to her 7th and 8th grade students about completing applications for the best high schools in the city....
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Local officials in Austin say if Chicago Public School leaders don’t create more high school seats in the West Side neighborhood, more youth will end up in the streets of Chicago’s toughest areas. But CPS officials say Austin residents will have to be content with their three Renaissance 2010 high schools. Austin High School,...
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Chicago Public School officials announced a new admission plan to maintain diversity by using socio-economic status versus race factors for selective enrollment and magnet schools Selective enrollment schools, some of the brightest jewels of Chicago’s public school system, are undergoing major changes that will affect the way students are admitted to coveted spots in...
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As in many low-income neighborhoods nationwide, health care access is a serious problem in Morgan Park on the South Side of Chicago. But a national program, the Health Careers Opportunity Program, aims to change this by sparking the interest of students in Morgan Park and other low-income communities in becoming health care professionals themselves....
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