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Gallery 37 hosts CPS student artists
Gallery 37 Center for the Arts on Randolph Street trains many CPS students in the arts. Check out these clothing designs from Aaliyah Willinghampierce. She designs clothing for women in many different styles and includes mesh, lace, and feathers as part of her signature style. Original drawings by Aaliyah Willinghampierce Read more
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Top 10 Winter Themed Beauty Products
By Annel Lopez December means value sets in stores like Ulta, Sephora, Mac and other beauty shops. Value sets usually mean winter themed products, and this year is no different. The stores are filled with palettes and sets with puns about winter themed songs and feeling the holiday spirit. Whether you want to pick up… Read more
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“Rogue One”: One of a Kind
By Zemerluan Meehan The latest Triple-A installment in the “Star Wars” continuum dropped on December 16, marking the next major achievement that the hulking mogul of a franchise has produced in the last couple of years. The Force Awakens started the ball rolling again after Disney acquired Lucasfilm, and since then, fans around the world… Read more
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From Grizzly to Lion: Payton sends first Division I football player to Columbia University
By Camille Grandjean For the first time in Payton history, a football player will be playing Division I football in the coming fall. Myles Davis ‘17 recently committed to Columbia University in New York City to play football for the next four years. Paw Print: When did you start playing football? Myles Davis: “I started… Read more
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A Chromebook for Everyone: Payton Goes One-to-One
By Allison Cho, Camille Grandjean, and Grace McDermott EDITORS Many students are familiar with the current school laptops: bulky, slow, and constantly low on battery. But technology at Payton will soon undergo a drastic change, in its role and quality, in an effort to further enhance the developing project-based curriculum. In the fall of 2017,… Read more
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Walter Payton’s Stella Binion Honored as National Student Poet
by Caroline Bernet Stella Binion steps on stage, to deliver a poem, but she is not standing in Chicago. She is in Washington D.C. in front of First Lady Michelle Obama. She is nervous, but at the same time, she knows that the message of her poem deserves to be heard, especially by the First… Read more
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No Justice No Peace: How Eva Lewis is Transforming Youth Activism in Chicago
By Julianna Ritzu The past couple of years have seen an eruption of social justice activism across the United States unlike anything seen since the Civil Rights Movement. Specifically the Black Lives Matter movement, which began as a response following the death of Trayvon Martin and the acquittal of his killer, George Zimmerman, on second-degree… Read more
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Republican panel discusses identity, belonging with PALs
In the first meeting of its kind, representatives from Young Conservatives club were invited to speak to the Payton Advisory Leaders (PALs) during a seminar meeting on March 30 to discuss the Republican identity at Payton. This invitation comes after the published results of January’s ‘invisibility survey’, which aimed to pinpoint subgroups of the student… Read more
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The Real Cost of Averted CPS Crises
In recent years, the Chicago Public Schools have teetered on the brink of severe teacher layoffs, devastating budget cuts, and disruptive strikes — pawns in a three-way tug-of-war between CPS, the Chicago Teachers Union, and politicians in Springfield. Interestingly, some fix seems to materialize at the eleventh hour: be it the State’s discovery of millions of… Read more
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Generation All Initiative Seeks to Improve Neighborhood HS
While Generation All – The Chicago Community Trust initiative- may be a newer initiative that launched in 2014, the disparity between high school choices for Chicago students has hindered the city for more than a decade. As school “choice” increases in Chicago, the once pillar of the community, neighborhood schools (middle and high schools), have… Read more
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Payton Freshmen: Be More Than an 896
The success around Payton continues to glorify the numerical and statistical achievement of its students. The admitted class of 2020 has yielded an entrance exam score of 896 – a score four shy of “perfection.” Out of all selective enrollment high schools, Payton is last in regards to opt-out… Read more
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Things Payton Students Should Know Before the Primary
A lot has happened in the world of politics since the Iowa Caucuses in early February. In Iowa, Hillary Clinton narrowly defeated Bernie Sanders in the Democratic caucus while Ted Cruz took the lead in the Republican caucus. In the New Hampshire primary, Sanders won the Democratic vote by nearly twenty percent while Donald Trump… Read more
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Falling short in the classroom
As now widely reported, Chicago Public Schools has gone through with mid-year layoffs due to the district facing a hundred million dollar budget deficit. With the anticipation earlier this year being 5,000 layoffs and then dropping down to a few hundred, 62 employees received pink slips by their principals today. However, as students, parents,… Read more
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On being white and attending Payton People of Color
I am a white woman, and I enjoy attending Payton People of Color (PPoC). This should not be laudable nor condemnable, although it might be perceived as both. According to its description on Selenium, PPoC is “open to anyone interested in having a safe space to discuss issues related to race, culture, and identity specific… Read more
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Eighth Graders: So You’re Into Payton — Now What?
Dear Admitted Payton Student, I totally get it. In fact, every one of the 888 current Payton students know what it’s like to be in your very position as an 8th grade Chicagoan applying to high school: the exhaustive testing, the logistical hurdles, and the silent (or possibly overt) pressure from a parent or guardian.… Read more
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