Hundreds joined pro-Palestinian protests at Chicago universities
Protesters from the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago and Roosevelt University rallied in support of people living in Gaza.
Protesters from the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago and Roosevelt University rallied in support of people living in Gaza.
The mayor’s top ally — the CTU — is among critics of CPS’s lack of transparency and failure to prioritize aides, even though CTU supports the shift to needs-based budgeting.
Students linked arms and formed a line against police after Northwestern leaders said the tent encampment violated university policy.
Local School Councils at several specialty elementary schools say they are facing budget cuts, a claim backed by a WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times analysis.
When people are science literate, they could be more health literate too.
Evans has ties to a 19th-century massacre of Indigenous Americans, but trustees argue he wasn’t “directly culpable”
The proposed legislation is the latest and most significant backlash to a declaration in December by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Board of Education that it would no longer prioritize selective schools and would refocus resources to neighborhood schools that have faced years of cuts and underfunding.
A new law increases credits earned for participating in prison programs, but records kept by the corrections department are spotty or incomplete.
The current contract expires this summer. On top of raises for staff, the union wants help for unhoused students, more dual language education.
All schools that participated in the 2023 Pride Parade were denied entry this year, and teachers see irony in exclusion from “one of the most inclusive places that you can go.”