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Chicago Public Schools has joined a lawsuit against the Department of Education over how it's earmarking coronavirus stimulus funds to private schools.

Chicago joins suit against Betsy DeVos over coronavirus relief funds, says CPS could lose $10 million to private schools

July 21, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools is now part of a federal lawsuit in which several cities and states are seeking to prevent private schools from getting a share of coronavirus relief bill...

Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey, left, and Vice President Stacy Davis Gates, center, speak on Oct. 3, 2019, during last year's teachers strike.

To open Chicago Public Schools, teachers union has demands — but does the city have to meet them?

July 11, 2020 at 8:21 a.m.

Before they return to classrooms during a rapidly evolving pandemic, Chicago Public Schools educators have a list of demands they want met — from small enough class sizes to a...

Lane Technical College Preparatory High School varsity football players practice drills at Lane Tech on Aug. 29, 2019.

Chicago Public Schools student athletes can start summer workouts next week, but with COVID-19 precautions

July 9, 2020 at 9:50 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools students could start summer sports programs as soon as Monday, district officials announced Thursday. But there will be no locker room huddles or parents mingling around the...

Chicago residents protest police in schools at a Daley Plaza rally, June 24, 2020.

Northside College Prep school council votes to pull police from campus: ‘If you’re going to put us on a pedestal, we can at least use that opportunity to set a precedent’

July 8, 2020 at 6:22 p.m.

Parent, community and teacher representatives at one of Chicago's top high schools have voted to remove city police stationed on its grounds, breaking with tradition and stoking similar efforts at...

After School Matters chef Gloria Hafer talks to students watching her virtual cooking class July 7, 2020, in Chicago.

Ingredients dropped off, sewing patterns delivered: Chicago students earning stipends through online summer program

July 8, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

This summer, incoming Lane Tech senior Jasmin Aquino is sewing a fanny pack. Enamored with fashion design since childhood, Jasmin finally learned to sew clothing through an After School Matters...

Controversy over keeping police in Chicago schools rages on, moves to City Council

July 2, 2020 at 8:11 p.m.

With the $33 million contract between Chicago Public Schools and the city's Police Department approaching its expiration date, City Council members took part in a heated discussion Thursday about the...

Linda Bhavilai waves a Chicago flag as she marches with striking teachers outside City Hall while thousands of striking teachers and supporters march on Oct. 23, 2019.

Lightfoot dismissed questions about ability to afford new CTU contract if economy tanked. Then COVID-19 hit, damaging CPS budget for years.

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

After the Chicago Board of Education approved an expensive new teachers' contract last fall following a bitter strike, Mayor Lori Lightfoot dismissed as "100% wrong" the notion that the school...

Muere de covid-19 a una semana de graduarse de high school

July 2, 2020 at 5:09 p.m.

Aquasha Moore y Darious Dorsey acordaron que si su bebé era un niño, el padre lo nombraría. Si tenían una niña, los derechos de nombre eran de Moore. A principios...

Chicago student who contracted COVID-19 dies a week before she was due to graduate high school

July 2, 2020 at 7:56 p.m.

Aquasha Moore and Darious Dorsey had agreed if their baby was a boy, the father would get to name him. If they had a girl, naming rights went to Moore....

Former CPS principal charged with felony battery was ‘horsing around’ before he threw water bottle at cafeteria worker, prosecutors say

June 26, 2020 at 4:39 p.m.

The week after he resigned amid allegations that he threw a water bottle at a woman working in the school's cafeteria, former Franklin Elementary Fine Arts Center principal Kurt Jones...

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