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CPS teacher who died of COVID-19 cleaned houses before earning her college degree and had ‘an incredible instinct for working with children’

October 7, 2020 at 11:27 a.m.

After holding her hands as she took her final breaths, Olga Quiroga's family drove past a double rainbow last Thursday and felt her presence. "The biggest rainbow was in front...

An arbitrator found "insufficient evidence" that Chicago Public Schools' buildings "are safe and healthful for these employees to work in."

CPS violated union contract by making clerks work during the pandemic in schools lacking ‘safe and healthful conditions,’ arbitrator rules

October 2, 2020 at 7:18 p.m.

An independent arbitrator has ruled that Chicago Public Schools violated its contract with the Chicago Teachers Union by making employees such as clerks work in school buildings that may not...

Someone who was present during an SAT exam given at Lane Tech last week has tested positive for the coronavirus. The school is shown in a 2016 photograph.

Positive COVID-19 test linked to in-person SAT exam at Lane Tech high school last week

October 2, 2020 at 7:21 p.m.

At least one person who was at Lane Tech College Prep during SAT testing last week has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to an email from principal Brian Tennison....

Chicago Public Schools office at 42 West Madison Street Monday, Sept. 21, 2020, in the Loop in Chicago. (Erin Hooley/baiduhai)

Chicago Public Schools pays $400,000 to settle lawsuits alleging physical abuse against 2 special education students by staff

September 29, 2020 at 7:55 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools has agreed to pay $400,000 to settle two federal lawsuits accusing employees of using corporal punishment on special education students at elementary schools in Bronzeville and South...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, along with CPS CEO Dr. Janice Jackson, announce that Chicago Public Schools will start the 2020-2021 school year with all remote learning in the fall.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot: ‘We’re not there yet’ on in-person CPS learning

September 28, 2020 at 7:22 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Monday said she would love to let students back into Chicago public schools in November but wouldn't commit to allow in-person learning this fall. When Chicago...

Beth Eyrenbach's father died of COVID-19. "It's not like the sniffles; it's not like the flu. You don't know if you're going to be the one that it hits hard."

COVID-19 closed Illinois schools the same week it infected a CPS speech pathologist and her parents. Six months later, she’s planning her father’s funeral.

September 28, 2020 at 4:51 p.m.

By Friday, March 13, private schools around Chicago were starting to shut down as Illinois confirmed its 46th case of the coronavirus. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said that day she had...

The Chicago Public Schools office at 42 W. Madison St. on Sept. 21, 2020, in Chicago.

Federal investigators seek to question 3 CPS employees; Board of Ed pays for lawyers to represent them

September 25, 2020 at 7:49 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools is paying two outside law firms to represent three employees whom federal authorities have asked to interview. The Chicago Board of Education this week approved a request...

Chicago Public Schools hasn't yet said if schools will reopen for the second quarter starting Nov. 9, 2020.

CPS plans for reopening schools still uncertain as parents share remote learning woes: ‘It’s just not working’

September 24, 2020 at 8:32 a.m.

Wednesday's Chicago Board of Education meeting offered little clarity for everyone who wants to know if students will be back in classrooms when the second quarter begins in November. Allison...

Neuqua Valley High School students arrive to take their SAT tests at the Naperville school on Sept. 23, 2020.

Scores of Illinois high schools reopened Wednesday for SAT makeup exams. Critics say seniors don’t need the added test stress during the COVID-19 pandemic.

September 23, 2020 at 5:58 p.m.

Thousands of high school seniors across the Chicago area, sidelined from in-person learning this fall by COVID-19, were back in their schools Wednesday for the first time in six months....

CPS had hoped more students would have participated in summer school to "mitigate learning loss," a district official said.

Less than a quarter of CPS students recommended for summer school completed it

September 21, 2020 at 2:47 p.m.

Just 24% of eligible Chicago Public Schools students completed virtual summer school this year, according to data released by CPS. While the summer programs were all voluntary and this year...

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