Linking truancy, delinquency and crime
My colleague Gary Marx and I chase stories of injustice. Back in November, we published an investigation revealing a crisis in the Chicago Public Schools: Roughly 32,000 K-8 graders miss...
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Prison data, court files show link between school truancy and crime
Of 182 boys and young men recently locked up in Illinois' three medium-security youth prisons, at least 135 used to miss so much school that they were labeled chronic truants....
Linking truancy, delinquency and crime
My colleague Gary Marx and I chase stories of injustice. Back in November, we published an investigation revealing a crisis in the Chicago Public Schools: Roughly 32,000 K-8 graders miss...
Prison data, court files show link between school truancy and crime
Of 182 boys and young men recently locked up in Illinois' three medium-security youth prisons, at least 135 used to miss so much school that they were labeled chronic truants....
Fugitive charged with killing ex-girlfriend caught in Mexico
Fugitive Raul Andrade Tolentino has been captured in Mexico and faces extradition to Chicago, where he is charged with the January 7, 2000, killing of his former girlfriend, Alma Chavez,...
Linking truancy, delinquency and crime
My colleague Gary Marx and I chase stories of injustice. Back in November, we published an investigation revealing a crisis in the Chicago Public Schools: Roughly 32,000 K-8 graders miss...
Fugitive charged with killing ex-girlfriend caught in Mexico
Fugitive Raul Andrade Tolentino has been captured in Mexico and faces extradition to Chicago, where he is charged with the January 7, 2000, killing of his former girlfriend, Alma Chavez,...
Mandatory school age could fall from 7 to 5 in Illinois
In a move aimed at countering Chicago's crisis in K-8 truancy and absenteeism, state Sen. Kimberly Lightford has introduced legislation to lower Illinois' compulsory school age from 7 to 5....
Mandatory school age could fall from 7 to 5 in Illinois
In a move aimed at countering Chicago's crisis in K-8 truancy and absenteeism, state Sen. Kimberly Lightford has introduced legislation to lower Illinois' compulsory school age from 7 to 5....
Chicago officials, activists vow to tackle truancy among city’s K-8 students
At a West Side town hall meeting Saturday, a panel of elected officials and community activists decried Chicago's truancy and absenteeism crisis among elementary schoolchildren and vowed to work on...