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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

PSAT for 3-11-14: Keep up the ISAT pressure! + Study: More than half of Illinois homeless students lack needed school services

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PSAT for 3-11-14: Keep up the ISAT pressure!
  The ice and snow are not letting up in Chicago and neither is the ICE the ISAT campaign! Please read and share this letter to the editor in today’s Tribune, which I submitted on behalf of More Than a Score. Then sign this petition to support the teachers who are teaching instead of testing this week. It has already received over 2300 signatures!
Study: More than half of Illinois homeless students lack needed school services
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) has released findings from a statewide survey of public school districts across Illinois: More than half of homeless students in Illinois must cope without needed tutoring, preschool or school counseling. An Illinois record 54,892 homeless students, preschool through 12th grade, were identified by public schools last year (2012-13), according to updated