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...generous district budget, all schools in the city are able to offer small learning communities, but some wonder how small is too small. Many parents and faculty said they worry that small middle school populations do not give students the chance to participate in extracurricular activities like orchestra, theater, and sports...
...School Committee roundtable discussion last month, Acting Superintendent Carolyn L. Turk announced that, based on feedback from all community groups, the two most popular options for the district were to maintain the K-8 model or to adopt a hybrid...
...Schuster said that throughout the process, parents said they were “disturbed and very concerned” that the district would completely abandon the K-8 model...
...Note: On Tuesday, Gov. Blagojevich was taken into custody on a U.S. District Court complaint of trying to take advantage of his leverage to appoint a U.S. Senator to fill Barack Obama's seat; it also said the governor tried to coerce the Chicago Tribune into firing staffers critical of the governor, in exchange for "millions of dollars" in assistance from the state of Illinois. The Tribune Company filed for bankruptcy this week...
...Athens police, the Exarchia neighborhood is enemy territory. A perennial sanctuary for the capital's marginalized far-left youth, the central district has been the scene of sporadic anti-government violence for years...