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Jacqueline Barbara Vaughn (née Robinson; July 27, 1935 – January 22, 1994) was an American Chicago Public Schools special education teacher and labor leader.Vaughn is noted as the first African-American and first woman to serve as president of the Chicago Teachers Union, the nation's third largest teachers union local from August 1984 until her death in January 1994.
The Second City Training Center was founded in the mid-1980s to facilitate the growing demand for workshops and instruction from the Second City theatre. The Training Centers are located in Chicago and [1] Toronto. [2] Satellite Centers formerly existed in Metro Detroit, Las Vegas, Cleveland, New York City [3] and Los Angeles. [4]
Marva Delores Collins (née Knight; August 31, 1936 – June 24, 2015) was an American educator.Collins is best known for creating Westside Preparatory School, a widely acclaimed private elementary school in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, which opened in 1975.
(The Center Square) – The Chicago Teachers Union is moving quickly to finalize a new contract with Chicago Public Schools. CPS and CTU have been without a contract since June 30, when the ...
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) was a Chicago public school reform project from 1995 to 2001 that worked with half of Chicago's public schools and was funded by a $49.2 million, 2-to-1 matching challenge grant over five years from the Annenberg Foundation.
(The Center Square) – The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard oral arguments last week surrounding the termination of Chicago teacher Jeanne Hedgepeth. Hedgepeth posted comments on ...
John Clark Dore, a Boston teacher and principal, became Chicago's first school superintendent in 1854, when there were 34 teachers and 3,000 students. When he resigned in 1856, enrollment had doubled to 6,100, 46 new instructors had been hired, and four new schools (including the first high school) had been constructed. [ 2 ]
In 2013 the Mackinac Center's Elementary and Middle School Report Card ranked this school as the top elementary in the State of Michigan. [ 1 ] Trix Elementary School