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City offers 'a leg up' in job interviews to CPS graduates
Tribune reporterChicago Public Schools graduates could have an advantage landing interviews for jobs with the city, whether it be tree trimming or fighting fires. Under a new iniatiative announced Saturday by Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office, the Department of Human...Tags: Employment Opportunities, Chicago Mayor, Career and Workplace, Graduation, U.S. Military
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CPS announces strike make-up days for students
Chicago Public Schools have announced the make-up days for the seven school days lost during the teacher strike. For students on a traditional schedule, which is most of the system, the make-up days are: - January 3 and 4 - Presidents Day, February 18 -...
Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Family, Students, Education, Chicago Public Schools
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Chicago teachers vote to suspend strike, resume classes
CNNHundreds of thousands of Chicago schools students will return to class Wednesday after the teachers' union voted to suspend its sometimes acrimonious strike that lasted about a week. Teachers in the third-largest U.S. school system voted Tuesday to end...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Teachers, Chicago Mayor, Students, Career and Workplace
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CPS principals meet with Brizard
WGN NewsChicago Public School principals met this afternoon at Roberto Clemente High School to discuss a sticking point central to them in the ongoing strike negotiations- their autonomy to hire the teachers they choose. The CTU is fighting principal autonomy as...Tags: Chicago Teachers Strike, Roberto Clemente Jr., Career and Workplace, Strikes
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Teachers strike talks end for the night, to resume Sunday
Tribune reporterAfter about nine hours of talks Saturday, negotiators for both Chicago Public Schools and the teachers union took a break and planned to resume on Sunday -- one day before a potential strike Monday. School Board President David Vitale said after talks...Tags: Teachers, Career and Workplace, Merchandise Mart, Unions, Separation of Church and State
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The CPS contingency plan
Here are some frequently asked questions about the CPS contingency plan. The answers were compiled from CPS and chief Jean-Claude Brizard's comments during a teleconference with parents last week. Q: How will the CPS sites in the district's Children...
Tags: Chicago Park District, Students, YMCA, Nursing, Separation of Church and State
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Schools, churches listed as part of strike-contingency plan
WGN NewsChicago Public School officials and the Chicago Teachers Union may be at the bargaining table but some of the representatives WGNTV spoke with earlier Thursday are not expressing much optimism that a strike can be averted next week. After ten months of...Tags: Separation of Church and State
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Teachers union: 'Intense' negotiations resume Saturday
Tribune reporterContract talks between Chicago Public Schools and the teachers union are over for the day and set to resume at noon Saturday. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis appeared grim as she said negotiations were unproductive today. She said union...Tags: Students, Career and Workplace, Unions, Separation of Church and State, Strikes
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Contract talks between CPS, CTU take turn for the worse
WGN newsContract talks between Chicago Public School leaders and Chicago Teachers Union represetnatives took a turn for the worse Friday afternoon. The day started on a positive note with union leaders saying talks were getting better. On Friday afternoon, the...Tags: Teachers, Career and Workplace, Education, Public Schools, Schools
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CPS chief tells teachers, 'We need to finish this'
Speaking to reporters before he rang the bell at Clemente High School this morning, CPS chief Jean-Claude Brizard said school officials are making "steady progress" in contract talks with teachers as a strike deadline looms. But he quickly added, "At the...
Tags: Teachers, Unemployment, Students, Chicago Mayor, AFSCME
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CPS classes begin amid strike threat
WGN NewsDozens of teachers, dressed in red and carrying signs reading "Students, Teachers, Parents: Unite!" picketed outside Lane Tech High School Tuesday afternoon; the end of the first day of classes for a majority of CPS schools. In many ways, it was a...Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Chicago Public Schools
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Schools chief Brizard, the mayor's human shield
Before there was a looming teachers strike and before the mayor had to go through Friday's charade of giving Chicago Public Schools frontman Jean-Claude Brizard a vote of confidence, the schoolmaster was engaging in social networking. Brizard got himself...
Tags: Teachers, Real Estate Buyers, Chicago Mayor, Field Museum of Natural History, Career and Workplace
Sep 29, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Sep 28, 2012
|Story| WGN-TV
Sep 19, 2012
|Story| CNN
Sep 12, 2012
|Story| WGNTV-LTV
Sep 8, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Sep 8, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Sep 6, 2012
|Story| WGNTV-LTV
Sep 7, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Sep 7, 2012
|Story| WGNTV-LTV
Sep 4, 2012
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Sep 4, 2012
|Story| WGNTV-LTV
Sep 2, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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