Chicago Schools Take Aim at Teacher Newspaper

The Chicago school system has taken legal action against a newspaper run by dissident teachers, which last month printed entire sections of the district's new $1.3 million high school tests.

The breach of test security by the newspaper Substance means that teachers will have to write new test questions for the exams, which were given Jan. 15 in the city's 74 high schools in a pilot test.

A temporary restraining order obtained by the district last month prohibited Substance from publishing any additional sections of the Chicago Academic Standards Exams, or CASE. The paper printed the entire tests in English, algebra, world...

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