rebuked school chief Connie Calloway for an unprofessional and poor job.

has now announced a 64 million dollar budget shortfall.

In a related article the superintendent of the school district says the district is in crisis mode.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports on this college professor that says that the plan to pay students for good grades who have helped from not being a high school dropout.

has a seen a drop of 2.6% in the undergraduate population down to 18,431 students.

on a group of business, civic, and university leaders coming together to change education. They would like a lift on charter school rules.

along with the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education this time have a second look at Urban Teaching Residencies.

In the first report they got more detailed on the Boston and Chicago program they looked at.

The second report gets a bit more into why you need this kind of a program to get teachers into the classroom. It also talks about the role institutions of higher education can play in the development of teacher-residency programs as well.