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The Chicago Debate Commission Is Hiring an Assistant Director of Programming for Operations

The Chicago Debate Commission (CDC) seeks a qualified candidate to join its programming staff, working in a variety of fields central to the CDC’s mission of bringing rigorous and engaging academic debate opportunities to public school students in Chicago. The CDC facilitates, promotes and manages academic debate programming in 75 public schools in Chicago, and […]

CMSDL Coach Training Seminar I — Saturday, August 24th, 12:30pm – 3:30pm

The Chicago Middle School Debate League has its first coach training seminar of seven now scheduled for the 2013/14 season — Coach Training Seminar I — next Saturday, 8/24, 12:30pm – 3:30pm, at the Loyola Law School, 25 E. Pearson St. This seminar will conduct an in-depth, argument by argument explication and strategic analysis of […]

SY2013 Coach Compensation and Incentives

In SY2013, the Chicago Debate Commission disbursed very nearly $50,000 ($48,900) in coach compensation and incentives, and this tracking form identifies how much each CDL coach earned in each category.  Notify me right away if you believe there is a discrepancy between the amount that the tracking form says you earned and the amount you […]

Announcing the 2013 Chicago Debate Summer Institute

The Chicago Debate Summer Institute is the two week training camp that has launched the Chicago Debate League season since the origination of the league, back in the summer of 1997. It was designed to replicate the educational impact of university debate institutes costing thousands of dollars, and Chicago established one of the largest and […]