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Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson listens to the mayor make an announcement to provide free high-speed internet to more than 100,000 Chicago students and their families, during a press event at Evergreen Academy Middle School on June 25, 2020.

Mayor Lightfoot announces plan to provide free internet to 100,000 Chicago children after coronavirus reveals ‘unacceptable disparities across the city’

June 26, 2020 at 10:26 a.m.

When the internet signal from a relative's apartment downstairs fails to reach Yolanda Williams, it can disrupt the school day for her 13-year-old daughter, a student at William Penn Elementary...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot talks about policing in schools during a news conference June 25, 2020, at Evergreen Academy Middle School.

Mayor Lightfoot praises vote keeping police in Chicago Public Schools, talks defund movement

June 25, 2020 at 5:03 p.m.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Thursday she was pleased that elected Local School Councils will continue to have the power to decide if they want police officers in their buildings....

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

Deeply divided Chicago Board of Education rejects bid to end contract with CPD, despite weeks of protests since police killing of George Floyd

June 24, 2020 at 9:14 p.m.

A vote by a deeply divided Chicago Board of Education to end its contract with the Chicago Police Department has failed, split along gender lines. The $33 million agreement pays...

Lincoln Park High School in Chicago on Jan. 14, 2016.

CPS moves to fire Lincoln Park High School basketball coach Pat Gordon; another coach reinstated, says misconduct claim ‘destroyed my life’

June 25, 2020 at 11:27 a.m.

Chicago Public Schools is seeking to fire Lincoln Park High School boys head basketball coach Pat Gordon, whose removal from his post in January was the start of a messy...

Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson speaks at a news conference in Chicago on June 22.

‘Another unusual school year’ awaits Chicago Public Schools as it figures out if buildings will reopen this fall

June 24, 2020 at 7:04 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools is planning for multiple scenarios as it looks to when and how schools will reopen, CEO Janice Jackson told Board of Education members Wednesday. It's still undecided...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker speaks during a news briefing regarding the coronavirus pandemic on May 3, 2020, at the Thompson Center in Chicago.

Illinois offers guidelines for schools to reopen classrooms this fall, but questions remain

June 23, 2020 at 8:32 p.m.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday released guidance for students to return to the classroom, but his plan left many unanswered questions as parents continue to wonder what school will look...

Chicago Board of Education member Dwayne Truss was found by a state watchdog to have performed campaign work while on state time, though Truss disputes the report's findings.

Chicago Board of Education member disputes watchdog report that he did campaign work while on the clock at state job

June 22, 2020 at 7:43 p.m.

A newly released state watchdog report concludes that Chicago Board of Education member Dwayne Truss promoted his failed campaign for City Council while on the clock as an auditor for...

Don’t defund Chicago police contract with CPS, but let local councils decide whether to have resource officers, schools chief says

June 22, 2020 at 6:45 p.m.

The divisive use of police officers embedded in schools lands before the Chicago Board of Education Wednesday, when there could be a vote on whether to end its $33 million...

Joyce Kenner, principal Whitney Young Magnet High School, celebrates the 2019 opening of a new athetlic complex named after the school's most famous alum, Michelle Obama.

Joyce Kenner leads Whitney Young, but after George Floyd’s killing she faces calls to resign: ‘If I don’t understand about black people and oppression, nobody else does.’

June 13, 2020 at 3:25 p.m.

After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968, an 11-year-old Joyce Kenner witnessed people take to the streets in her hometown of Dayton, Ohio, "for the same things we...

Teen activism in Chicago spurred by police killing of George Floyd: ‘We are fed up and this is the last straw’

June 9, 2020 at 10:09 a.m.

Young Chicagoans like Shayla Turner say they have seen too many black people killed by police or had friends shot dead in cases that go unsolved. "It's not just George...

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