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Parents Defending Education challenges Chicago district’s Black Student Success Plan as discriminatory
A group opposed to race-based initiatives filed a complaint with the Department of Education seeking to block a Chicago ...
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Chicago Releases Black Student Success Plan Amid Backlash Against Race-Based Initiatives
Its release during Black History Month is part of CPS’s broader five-year strategic plan and aims to address long-standing ...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson escalates push for CPS to pick up pension payment, borrow more money
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is instructing the school board to move ahead on accepting the costs of a $175 million pension payment that has been a political hot potato between City Hall and ...
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s 2026 budget proposal includes increases for K-12 schools and early childhood education
Gov. J.B. Pritzker gave his 2026 budget address on Wednesday. Here is what he asked lawmakers to approve for early childhood, ...
Are Chicago Public Schools closed today? Full list of schools with snow days, e-learning
The list of Chicago-area schools closed into anticipation of the winter storm headed to Illinois continued to grow Wednesday ...
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Chicago schools doubled classroom assistants in recent years. Now, labor unions are fighting over who represents them.
Special education classroom assistants are assigned to provide additional support to students with disabilities. The Chicago ...
Chicago schools chief Pedro Martinez asserts no need for teachers strike following release of fact-finder’s report
The teachers union’s rejection of the fact-finder report opens the door for a strike as soon as March following a 30-day ...
Chicago forecast: Cold weather advisory with wind chills as low as -30
The advisory and school closures comes amid extreme cold warnings for 11 states across the U.S., stretching from the Canadian ...
Chicago Mayor Johnson names final CPS Board of Education appointment, completing 1st hybrid board
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson announced his final appointment to the Chicago Board of Education Tuesday, completing the city's first-ever hybrid school board.
‘Fails to meet our standards:’ Nevada school district rejects Pedro Martinez for top job
Ousted schools CEO Pedro Martinez was tossed from the running for superintendent of the Clark County School District in ...
Is there school on Presidents Day in Illinois? What's open and closed, including libraries, schools and more
Although many offices will be closed on Monday, Feb. 17 in honor of Presidents Day, many retailers and grocery stores will be ...
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Mayor Brandon Johnson Appoints Cydney Wallace To Hybrid School Board
Wallace is a Black Jewish activist and a CPS parent. Her appointment comes two months after Mayor Brandon Johnson named his ...