Ag School principal wants year-round classes Southtown Star
Principal Bill Hook has sent an application to the Chicago Board of Education for the school to use the year-round calendar.
Missing 12-year-old girl found dead in South Side alley Tribune
Family members said they have viewed photographs and identified the
girl as Jahmeshia Conner, who was last seen Nov. 15. She was a fifth
grader at O'Toole Elementary School.
Teacher absences: Are they excessive and do they hurt students?
Atlanta Journal Constitution
When
he was CEO of Chicago public schools, Duncan was dismayed to discover
that the system was spending more than $10 million a year on substitute
teachers. He tangled with the teacher unions when he added teacher
attendance data to school scorecards.
Tinley Park, Mount Prospect bask in limelight as best places to raise kids Tribune
BusinessWeek gave top Mount Prospect in 2008 and Tinley Park in 2009
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The missing girl story worries me. In the Sun Times article, it mentions at the end that there are a couple of other missing tween children, Paolo Pena and Gregory Chacon.
And it angers me that were these children wealthier and probably whiter and blonder, their pictures would be plastered all over Nancy Grace.
It worries me that someone or someone(s) out there could be preying on young children.
And don't forget, Diamond and Tionda Bradley have never been found.