By Zemerluan Meehan Satirist The 2016-2017 school year has been a tumultuous one, marked thus far by a plethora of inconvenient and disruptive fiscal crises, which have since been laid to rest […]
CPS Fed Up With Unfinished College Applications, Spends Budget Hiring College Interns
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Editorial: Why mental health at Payton is an oxymoron
Staff Editorial May was Mental Health Awareness month, but this has certainly not been a mental health awareness year. The “pressure-cooker” environment at Payton has long compelled students to cram APs into […]
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 […]
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 […]
