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Michelle Obama gearing up for fight against childhood obesity

WASHINGTON -- A week before the launch of a national campaign against childhood obesity, first lady Michelle Obama met today at the White House with key allies in her fight.
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CPS Wants Local Community, Faith Groups in on Mentoring

Chicago Public Schools is asking community organizations and faith groups to mentor 3,000 at-risk high school students. There's money for it.

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Rugai: Keller closes "over my dead body"
		Southwest Observer Ald. Ginger Rugai told a packed gymnasium at Keller School Thursday that Chicago Public Schools would relocate the city's top-performing elementary school over her dead body. Read more...

Remember When: Margie Sturgis first full-time black teacher in Winnebago County

Before school bells rang in autumn 1953, the now-defunct Winnebago County school system needed teachers.
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In The Headlines

Chicago schools to offer $10 million mentoring program

2/5/2010 - By Catherine Ann Velasco -
Plainfield Sun

For kids at Freedom Elementary School in Plainfield, the number of keychains hooked to their backpacks says it all.

	South Loop School at crossroads - 2/5/2010 Chicago Tribune
	Chicago schools to offer $10 million mentoring program - 2/4/2010 Chicago Tribune
	Helping principals, teachers the next wave of performance management - 2/3/2010
	Wrongful death suit filed against school district for fifth-graders suicide - 2/2/2010
	Chicago Not A Really "Super" School District - 2/1/2010
	Teen shot in arm on way to school - 2/1/2010 Chicago Defender
	Daley taps Richardson-Lowry for Chicago school board chief - 1/29/2010 Chicago Tribune
	CPS backtracks fast on moving Keller - 1/28/2010 SouthtownStar
	Why Parents Fight to Keep "Failing" Schools Open - 1/27/2010
	Mentoring Progam Aims to Help CPS Girls - 1/26/2010 Chicago Public Radio
	Daley Withholding Judgement on Schools Credit Card Scandal - 1/26/2010 Chicagoist
	Central Illinois copes with icy blast, power outages - 1/22/2010 Bloomington Pantagraph
	CPS proposes changes at 14 schools - 1/22/2010 Chicago Defender
	Cooking Up Change brings healthy food to CPS - 1/21/2010 Pioneer Press

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