THURSDAY | FEBRUARY 23, 2012
Chicago School Draws Scrutiny Over Student Fines
Tammy Webber | Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — A sense of order and decorum prevails at Noble Street College Prep as students move quickly through a hallway adorned with banners from dozens of colleges. Everyone wears a school polo shirt neatly tucked into khaki trousers. There’s plenty of chatter but no jostling, no cellphones and [...]
Real Cost of Teacher Layoffs is Our Future
Claudia Rowe | Equal Voice News
October 24, 2011
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By now, the pattern is impossible to ignore: More than 30,000 teachers in California received layoff warnings last spring; another 300 prepared for unemployment in Milwaukee; in Chicago, 1,000 more were looking for work, and by the time school started in September some 60,000 teachers across the country had [...]
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CHICAGO – Chicago, one of the most populous, politically important cities in the country, has watched its African-American population steadily ebb over the last decade, to the point where low-income residents say they no longer recognize this city as a stronghold of working families. The effects of public housing [...]
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Behind Bars: For African-American Girls Acting Out Is a Crime
By Kathy Mulady | Equal Voice
May 13, 2011
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er says she was a typically rebellious teenager raised by a single mother. She left home at 17 and lived on the streets, surviving on stale donated bread and sleeping on church porches. When she was 18, she was arrested for stealing a $10 bag of McDonald’s [...]
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Each year, America spends about $68 billion to incarcerate and supervise more than 7 million people. Yet criminologists say our burgeoning penal system – which has tripled in size over the past 25 years – does little to improve public safety. What it has been most successful at is [...]
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Teens Decry Violence: Officials Stay Home
Claudia Rowe | Equal Voice News
December 15, 2009
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Letters from elected officials arrived by the handful, a pile of promises from Illinois’s governor, state representatives and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, assuring youth organizers that they would attend a weekend meeting at Dyett High School, on the city’s South Side, to discuss the city’s mounting student death rate. [...]
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ws They were two boys, high school basketball stars hanging around a Chicago candy store, dreaming of NBA fame. And it might have happened if Benjy Wilson, 17, had not been shot there on the street for the crime of bumping into another youth. Today, the shooter, who was 16 [...]
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