Posts Tagged “Education”
Friends of Audubon School recently created a brief document highlighting our schools accomplishments and interesting facts for our potential families, local community and corporate sponsors. Audubon continues to strive for even greater success and wants to share their story with the community at large.
Categories: Audubon School Chicago Public Schools Education
Alderman Waguespack visited the French and Asian Clubs at Lakeview High School on Wednesday. He talked about the advantages of being bilingual/bicultural and shared his experience learning German while in an exchange program during his high school years. Scott also spent time in the BalkansContinue...
Categories: Education Lake View High School Lakeview
Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) chose 32nd Ward Scott Waguespack as the first recipient of the Defender of Public Education Award. He was specifically cited as having “… a commitment to public education that is rarely matched in this town.”
(pdf)Categories: Awards Chicago Teachers Union Defender of Public Education Award Education Our Urban Times
Good teachers
Your June 12 editorial on “The best teachers” had many good points about flexibility, union issues, etc.
But it implied something that is simply not true.
That is the idea that a person of strong math background in education, industry, even editing a math text makesContinue...
Categories: City Council Education
Everyone concerned about education is encouraged to join hundreds of parents, students and community members representing schools from across Chicago Thurs., June 17 at the Thompson Center from 10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. The school funding fight must continue to be fought.
With less than oneContinue...
Categories: Chicago Public Schools Education Our Urban Times
Located in Lincoln Park, on the corner of Ashland and Wrightwood, Prescott Elementary School is a neighborhood school with cluster focus on reading and literature. Two years ago, Mr. Erin Roche joined Prescott as principal. He and Prescott Parents have been actively involved in bringing inContinue...
Categories: CPS Education Prescott School
At McLean and Leavitt, Pulaski Elementary School is the neighborhood school for many Bucktown families. In early 2008, Alderman Waguespack began asking Chicago Public Schools Office of Academic Enhancement to consider bringing an International Baccalaureate program to the schools. While IB programs exist at otherContinue...
Categories: CPS Education Pulask School