on the local school district that says regular teachers are going to wind up getting fired to make room on the payroll for special education teachers if the ruling against the school district stands.

on Chicago Teachers Union President Marilyn Stewary saying that disruptive students need a special school just for them.

on the local school district that says it is not going to close more school buildings.

on 65 elementary schools in the state that have test scores put them in the bottom 5 percent in academic performance, but cannot get extra help from the state education department due to the amount of improvement they made over the past year.

on big problems that local school board has with restoring public faith with the public.

with a brand new look out at weather thew achievement gap is closing at all.

What they found is that for 74% of the instances they looked at showed the achievement gap narrowing. In 23% of the instances they looked at it showed a widning of the achievement gap.

When the achievement gap narrow for the most part it was the minority groups making bigger gains than the higher performing sub groups.