More Chicago schools to go year-round - 4/22/09 - Chicago News - abc7chicago.com

More Chicago schools to go year-round - 4/22/09 - Chicago News - abc7chicago.com: "More Chicago public school students will be attending year-around schools next year. Officials say they will more than double the number of schools that operate all year long."

Crain's Daily News Alert prepared for Top Executives

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Parental Engagement and Juvenile Justice Town Hall Forum

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here   Parental Engagement and Juvenile Justice Town Hall Forum  _____________________________________________________________________   African-American juveniles make up 85% of its juvenile justice system population in Cook County - and this is one of the reasons why black students are dropping out of school.    Find out what you and your children can do about this.   This discussion will focus on the racial disparities in the Juvenile Justice System - and ways to keep students out of the system.     Featured speakers include: David Wells  Executive Director, Juvenile Intervention Support Center  Annazette Collins, Illinois State Representative (10th District) Chairman of Juvenile Justice Reform Committee Kathleen Bankhead Chief, Juvenile Justice Bureau, Cook County State's Attorney  Edith Crigler Associate Director, Chicago Area Project _____________________________________________________________________  Thursday, April 30, 2009 Chicago Urban League 4510 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60653 6:00 p.m.  - 8:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.     Please RSVP to Candace Willis (773) 451-3610 cwillis@thechicagourbanleague.org _____________________________________________________________________  Tell a Friend Chicago Urban League | 4510 Michigan Avenue | Chicago | IL | 60653

Stroger Watch

Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has once again demonstrated that he is unfit to manage a multi-billion dollar budget. His latest involvement in the the Donna Dunnings/Tony Cole scandal is another example of his severe lack of judgment. Below is the news release issued by the Cook County Republican Party calling for the resignation of Todd Stroger. Unfit to Govern Cook County GOP News Release - 4/22/09 CHICAGO— The Cook County Republican Party calls on Todd Stroger to resign as Cook County Board President immediately. Stroger and his administration refuse to directly answer taxpayer questions about hiring practices in county government and now we know of at least two employees engaged in activity representing a serious breach of ethical standards. Stroger hired his cousin, Donna Dunnings and a man he met at a restaurant, Tony Cole, without vetting them or conducting proper background checks. This kind of irresponsible management of county staff is not an isolated incident - it is a hiring culture Stroger has created that rewards county jobs to unqualified people without asking substantive questions...read more... Stroger Aide, CFO Dunnings Resigns Chicago Sun-Times - 4/17/2009 Cook County Board President Todd Stroger has ousted his cousin from her $175,701-a-year job as the county's chief financial officer amid questions about her dealings with a recently fired county patronage worker. Donna Dunnings resigned after Stroger asked for her resignation "in the wake of Dunnings' disclosure of issues related to a personnel matter that could conflict with her abilities to fulfill her responsibilities" as CFO, Stroger's office said in a press release this morning...read more... County Commissioners call for State and Federal probe Southwest News Herald - 4/21/09 Fearing that the county's funds may have been abused, Cook County Commissioner Lawrence Suffredin (D-13th District) called on the U.S. Attorney to investigate the circumstances surrounding the firing of Cook County Chief Financial Officer Donna Dunnings....read more... Todd Stroger leaves unanswered questions Chicago Tribune - 4/21/09 Cook County Board President Todd Stroger today continued his media rounds to answer questions about why he dumped his cousin, one of his administration's top officials, amid an imbroglio over their contacts with a felon Stroger hired, promoted and later fired. But during a session with newpaper reporters at his fifth floor office, he broke little new ground and left many questions unanswered, as he has done in a string of broadcast interviews he's granted since he informed the Tribune of the resignation early Friday morning...read more... Time for Todd Stroger to answer key question Chicago Sun-Times - 4/21/09 Cook County Board President Todd Stroger must understand one key fact: Getting rid of his chief financial officer, his first cousin Donna Dunnings, won't make the scandal involving her and her former employee, Tony Cole, go away. Stroger blames his political foes for his problems, but he has been less than forthright on the scandal....read more... Commissioner Tony Peraica on Fox News ReformCookCounty.com - 4/20/09

Media Matters Daily Summary

Here are today's news items from Media Matters for America, click on the title or 'read more' to read the entirety of each story. Media continue to ignore Cheney role in authorizing torture tactics Media outlets continue to cite Dick Cheney's criticism of President Obama for releasing previously classified Justice Department memos authorizing the CIA's use of harsh interrogation techniques while ignoring Cheney's self-acknowledged role in authorizing the use of those techniques. Read More Hannity decries use of "the 'B' word," unless Ted Nugent is using it about Clinton Sean Hannity decried Perez Hilton's use of "the 'B' word" in reference to Carrie Prejean, saying, "I can't think of anything more vicious, more mean, more insulting, more degrading." But Hannity did not object when Ted Nugent referred to Hillary Clinton as a "worthless bitch." Read More Politico omits Blair's reported statement that costs of techniques "far outweighed" the benefits The Politico reported that Dennis Blair stated that harsh interrogation techniques yielded "high-value information" but did not note Blair's reported statement that the costs of those techniques "far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us." Read More Scarborough falsely compared harsh interrogations to military training programs Joe Scarborough asserted that interrogation techniques, such as "sleep deprivation and working on phobias" used against detainees, are no different from those used in U.S. military training programs. However, officials familiar with both dispute the comparison. Read More Media ignore falsehood in Miss California's same-sex marriage response Numerous media figures have suggested that Carrie Prejean lost the Miss USA pageant because of the "honesty" of her response to a question about same-sex marriage. But the suggestion that Prejean was merely giving her opinion ignores a factual falsehood in Prejean's response. Read More Fox News runs with dubious claim that KSM's interrogation thwarted L.A. plot Fox News hosts and contributors have advanced the assertion that the use of harsh interrogation techniques on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed "stopped an attack on the Library Tower in Los Angeles." But the Bush administration said that the attack was thwarted in February 2002 -- more than a year before Mohammed was captured. Read More Media cite DOJ memo to claim link -- refuted by Bush timeline -- between KSM waterboarding, thwarted L.A. plot Media figures have pointed to a 2005 Justice Department memo to claim that the use of waterboarding on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed caused him to reveal information intelligence officials used to foil a plot to attack the Library Tower in Los Angeles. But according to the Bush administration, the plot was broken up more than a year before Mohammed's capture. Read More MSNBC's Buchanan falsely attributed dubious OLC memo claim to Hayden-Mukasey op-ed Pat Buchanan attributed the claim that the use of enhanced interrogation techniques on detainees allowed intelligence officials to foil the Library Tower plot to a Wall Street Journal op-ed by Michael Hayden and Michael Mukasey. In fact, Mukasey and Hayden made no such claim in their op-ed. Read More NBC's Mitchell falsely suggests Blair letter expressed approval for interrogation methods Andrea Mitchell claimed that director of national intelligence Dennis Blair's statements appear to differ from President Obama's rejection of enhanced interrogation policies, when, in fact, Blair made clear in an April 16 letter that he opposed them. Read More You can help support our work; become a volunteer media monitor, or donate to Media Matters for America.

Gangs deeply rooted on U.S. side of Mexico border

Gangs deeply rooted on U.S. side of Mexico border: "Homeowner Cosme Liscano is fed up with the gangs in his neighborhood in this Texas town near the Mexican border."

As Bush adviser, Rice delivered OK to waterboard

As Bush adviser, Rice delivered OK to waterboard: "As national security adviser to former President George W. Bush, Condoleezza Rice verbally approved the CIA's request to subject alleged al-Qaida terrorist Abu Zubaydah to waterboarding in July 2002, the earliest known decision by a Bush administration official to OK use of the simulated drowning technique."