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McManis, John T. Ella Flagg Young and a half-century of the Chicago public schools (1916) online; Peterson, Paul E. School politics Chicago style (U of Chicago Press, 1976) online, a major scholarly study of 1970s. Rury, John L. “Race, Space, and the Politics of Chicago’s Public Schools: Benjamin Willis and the Tragedy of Urban Education.”
Bogan lead the Chicago Public Schools through many years of the Great Depression. [2] In these years, the Board of Education put the schools under a "crucially low" budget. [2] Bogan put in place a program which helped to find jobs for the nearly 2,000 elementary school teachers who were played. [2]
Chicago Public Schools were the most racial-ethnically separated among large city school systems, according to research by The New York Times in 2012, [47] as a result of most students' attending schools close to their homes. In the 1970s the Mexican origin student population grew in CPS, although it never exceeded 10% of the total CPS student ...
Leaders in the public schools were shocked: They were shut out as consultants and as recipients of New Deal funding. They desperately needed cash to cover the local and state revenues that had disappeared during the depression, they were well organized, and made repeated concerted efforts in 1934, 1937, and 1939, all to no avail.
On June 12, Chicago's Lake Park was re-named Lincoln Park in his honor. 867 Confederate prisoners at Camp Douglas (Chicago) died, bringing the total death toll at the camp to 4,454. The majority of the Confederate prisoners were buried in a mass grave at Oak Woods Cemetery. Corporal punishment was abandoned in schools. [6] Population: 178,492 ...
The refinancing faced some initial pushback earlier this month from aldermen concerned the proceeds might be used to help plug Chicago Public Schools’ budget deficit. In response, aldermen ...
In 1993, Daley asked Claypool to take on the task of overhauling the Chicago Park District after allegations of the hired truck scandal that made public while he was the mayor's chief of staff. When Claypool became the CEO and Superintendent of the CPD, the District had a budget of $300 million as well as a payroll of 4,100 full-time employees ...
Chicago’s financial forecast is clouded by a $982.4 million budget deficit, and Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed $300 million property tax hike has stirred up a storm of discontent with council ...