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A New Jersey News Outlet Asks the Courts To Stop a Judge's Censorship

The judge concluded that a high school student's privacy interests trumped freedom of the press.

Reason

Chicago High School Principal Urges Local Control Over School Resource Officers

This content discusses the debate surrounding the removal of police officers from Chicago schools and the importance of local decision-making.

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Gutting school choice in Chicago would be terrible for Black, Brown students

Pitting neighborhood and choice schools against each other is misleading and divisive, the former schools CEO writes. The board’s irresponsible action is about politics and ideology, not facts.

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Activists praise Board of Ed’s push toward neighborhood schools, away from school choice

Many parents, students and public education advocates have long said the choice system creates “haves” and “have-nots” and leaves children competing with one another for resources.

Chicago Sun-Times

#TheyLied Case Filed by Elected Official Over Allegations of Sexual Assault Can Go Forward

From Anderson v. Senthilnathan (Colo. Ct. App.), decided Sept. 28, in an opinion by Judge Katharine Lum, joined by Judges Jerry Jones and Steve Bernard: At various times in 2021, while Anderson served as an elected Director on the Board of Education for Denver Public Schools (DPS), [Defendants] BLM [Black…

Reason

Brandon Johnson replaces most of Chicago Board of Education

The new board will have a different feel than in past years when consultants, lawyers and bankers filled many of the seven seats. Only one of Johnson’s appointees is a lawyer, and she runs a legal aid organization.

Chicago Sun-Times

State board of education president Pamela Pugh launches US Senate bid

Michigan State Board of Education President Pamela Pugh is launching her campaign Tuesday for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Sen. Debbie Stabenow, hoping to change the fact that there's no Black women currently serving in the upper chamber.

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Brandon Johnson is Chicago’s new mayor. So what’s next for CPS?

Some of Johnson’s first decisions after his swearing-in next month will have to do with education, the issue nearest and dearest to his heart and his work over the past decade.

Chicago Sun-Times

Dollars vs. decentralization: Johnson’s and Vallas’ vastly different fixes for CPS

Paul Vallas and Brandon Johnson have strong ties to public education — and very different plans for Chicago Public Schools.

Chicago Sun-Times

Denver school board votes unanimously to put armed police back in city's high schools for rest of year

DENVER — Denver’s school board voted unanimously Thursday to allow armed police back into the city’s high schools, a decision that comes a day after two administrators were shot at East High School and nearly three years after the board decided to remove officers from buildings.

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