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House Democratic leader Barbara Flynn Currie said a bill lowering Illinois' compulsory school attendance age faces "an uphill climb."

Move to lower mandatory school age faces ‘uphill climb’

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

To address a devastating pattern of elementary-grade absenteeism in Chicago Public Schools and across the state, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn have thrown their support behind legislation to...

Investigation found problems; reforms promised; approach uncertain

November 3, 2021 at 5:23 p.m.

Investigative reporting operates on the very un-cynical assumption that reforms may follow if suffering is revealed, and that the injustice and corruption that exist in our world often lies hidden...

Move to lower mandatory school age faces ‘uphill climb’

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

To address a devastating pattern of elementary-grade absenteeism in Chicago Public Schools and across the state, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Gov. Pat Quinn have thrown their support behind legislation to...

Investigation found problems; reforms promised; approach uncertain

December 24, 2018 at 12:41 a.m.

Investigative reporting operates on the very un-cynical assumption that reforms may follow if suffering is revealed, and that the injustice and corruption that exist in our world often lies hidden...

Suspect in 2000 Pilsen killing nabbed in Mexico

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

For 13 years, the family of Alma Chavez clung to dwindling hopes that law enforcement would catch up to the man accused of killing the soft-spoken nursing student. Chavez's ex-boyfriend,...

Suspect in 2000 Pilsen killing nabbed in Mexico

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

For 13 years, the family of Alma Chavez clung to dwindling hopes that law enforcement would catch up to the man accused of killing the soft-spoken nursing student. Chavez's ex-boyfriend,...

Prison data, court files show link between school truancy and crime

June 18, 2018 at 8:02 p.m.

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....

Prison data, court files show link between school truancy and crime

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

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....

Mandatory school age could fall from 7 to 5 in Illinois

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

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

June 14, 2024 at 6:49 p.m.

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....

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