Ren-10 Lists Almost Out (Chicago IL)

It's not going to be easy. Board officials have been meeting furiously for the past month and more to see if they could put together slates of new schools and to-be-closed schools ahead of the late-January board meeting, and now it looks like Tuesday is the day. Send me the lists if you have them:

School panels 'screwed up' with closed meetings: official Chicago Sun-Times
Clamor for charter schools unaffected by low test scores Sun Times

In the meantime, CPS is still trying to work out a way to keep its NCLB tutoring operation running at least through the rest of the school year. A meeting later this month will determine what happens.

CPS students don’t get the tutoring they deserve Chicago Journal
'Intense' tutoring program approved Crookston Daily Times
More city students seek free tutoring New York Daily News
Why Not Also Quantify Private Tutors’ Outcomes? Education Week
Assessing Tutoring Will Fall To Parents Tampa Tribune

The best of the rest:
Out of the school budget loop Tribune
As many as 30 Catholic schools to close in 2005Chicago Sun-Times
Learning Languages No Longer a Foreign Concept Chicago Tribune
Round Lake schools go from rags to recognition Chicago Tribune
Number of `master teachers' on the rise in Chicago schools Chicago Tribune
Schools report good gun news Chicago Tribune
District U-46 is off `watch' list Chicago Tribune
Lessons from life Chicago Tribune
A tough initiation: Teach first, learn to be teacher later Chicago Tribune
Districts find ways to ease transfer woes for students Chicago Tribune