Katie Schulder-Battis, Author at The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com Investigating race and poverty since 1972 Thu, 19 Oct 2023 18:02:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/logo-1-reverse-1-150x150-1.png Katie Schulder-Battis, Author at The Chicago Reporter https://www.chicagoreporter.com 32 32 163009088 Escaping the ‘hunger games’ of Chicago’s high school application process: Chicago’s segregated schools and the nonprofit creating pathways to college https://www.chicagoreporter.com/escaping-the-hunger-games-of-chicagos-high-school-application-process-chicagos-segregated-schools-and-the-nonprofit-creating-pathways-to-college/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/escaping-the-hunger-games-of-chicagos-high-school-application-process-chicagos-segregated-schools-and-the-nonprofit-creating-pathways-to-college/#respond Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:50:39 +0000 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=7847462 Nearly 70 years after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of desegregating public schools, Chicago’s school system remains largely segregated. Low rates of enrollment and poor test scores on the Illinois Scholastic Assessment test scores have contributed to funding cuts and school closures—issues that disproportionately impact school districts located in Chicago’s South and West sides. […]

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]]> https://www.chicagoreporter.com/cook-county-jails-start-early-doula-program-addresses-the-needs-of-its-pregnant-population/feed/ 0 7847378 ‘It’s ancestral work’: Illinois law expands access to maternal healthcare and doulas https://www.chicagoreporter.com/its-ancestral-work-illinois-law-expands-access-to-maternal-healthcare-and-doulas/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/its-ancestral-work-illinois-law-expands-access-to-maternal-healthcare-and-doulas/#respond Fri, 03 Mar 2023 17:34:04 +0000 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=7846754 Katie Schulder-Battis is a Chicago Reporter contributor and student at Northwestern University. This content is made possible through partnership with the Chicago Reporter and the Graduate Science Journalism… More by Katie Schulder-Battis Chicago women will soon have increased access to quality maternal care. Though implementation of the 2021 Illinois law passed in April 2021 is still […]

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]]> https://www.chicagoreporter.com/its-ancestral-work-illinois-law-expands-access-to-maternal-healthcare-and-doulas/feed/ 0 7846754 ‘We perish for lack of knowledge:’ Formerly incarcerated women lead advocacy groups to spread awareness and reform in criminal justice system  https://www.chicagoreporter.com/we-perish-for-lack-of-knowledge-formerly-incarcerated-women-lead-advocacy-groups-to-spread-awareness-and-reform-in-criminal-justice-system/ https://www.chicagoreporter.com/we-perish-for-lack-of-knowledge-formerly-incarcerated-women-lead-advocacy-groups-to-spread-awareness-and-reform-in-criminal-justice-system/#respond Fri, 17 Feb 2023 18:18:05 +0000 https://www.chicagoreporter.com/?p=7846701 Katie Schulder-Battis is a Chicago Reporter contributor and graduate student at Northwestern University. This content is made possible through partnership with the Graduate Science Journalism Medill School Northwestern University and the Chicago Reporter. Formerly incarcerated women are leading a grassroots movement to reform the criminal justice system in Chicago and beyond. Since 1980, the number […]

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