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“There’s a very good chance that they will fire me,” said Katherine Franke, a tenured professor who has defended students protesting for Gaza.
Students admitted to CPS gifted elementary programs are three times more likely to get into one of Chicago's 11 test-in high schools than kids who go to nonselective neighborhood elementary schools, a WBEZ analysis of data has found.
The post-hiring test was so demanding and so unrelated to the skills needed to serve that four of the 12 women suffered “career-ending” hip and back injuries during testing. One “tore her hip open,” their attorney said.
For 50 years, Mrs. Duncan ran Sue Duncan Children’s Center, an after-school program serving kids on the South Side. 'She really felt that education was a way to ameliorate the injustices in society,' her daughter said.