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CPS says it's providing an extra $125 million to individual schools to help improve equity across the district.

With financial impact of COVID-19 uncertain, Chicago Public Schools tries to boost its neediest schools with ‘equity grants’

April 29, 2020 at 4:25 p.m.

Budgets announced Tuesday for individual Chicago public schools include $125 million in additional resources, a small fraction of a typical annual budget for the whole 642-school district. While Chicago Public...

Troy LaRaviere, president of the Chicago Principals and Administrators Association, said CPS administrators haven't received adequate protective gear.

Chicago principals demand more masks, hand sanitizers, distancing barriers for workers who remain in schools

April 27, 2020 at 5:26 p.m.

A group representing Chicago Public Schools administrators is demanding more support from the district during the coronavirus closures, including personal protective equipment for all school staff members still on site....

Miles Palmieri, 11, and his mother, Christine, walk to their Chicago home. They both had symptoms of COVID-19 and have recovered. Miles requires one-on-one speech therapy, but not all such services have been available during the school shutdown.

Coronavirus school shutdown has been particularly tough on kids with special needs: ‘It’s not just a disruption. We’re going to see kids who actually go backward.’

April 27, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

When their fevers finally broke, Christine Palmieri and her sixth grade son Miles had a whole new world to navigate — one without speech therapy or recess buddies, with more...

Could remote learning extend into fall? That's a possibility, Chicago leaders acknowledge.

Could remote learning extend into fall? CPS is preparing for the possibility that schools won’t reopen after Labor Day.

April 23, 2020 at 8:38 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Chicago Public Schools is preparing for the possibility that remote learning will continue in the fall. Asked about that prospect at an unrelated news conference Thursday,...

People line up to pick up laptops for students outside Richardson Middle School in Chicago on April 14. Throughout CPS, more than 115,000 students needed computers for remote learning during the pandemic.

CPS tries to connect with kids who aren’t participating in remote learning. ‘We need to find out why … and we need to find that out quickly’

April 23, 2020 at 4:22 p.m.

Roughly half of the Chicago Public Schools students who needed computers to use during the coronavirus closure have yet to get them, more than a week into the formal start...

Richardson Middle School security team member Efrain Rico, right, hands out paperwork to parents as they line up to pick up laptops for their children's remote learning.

Is it fair to give grades during the coronavirus school shutdown? With CPS report cards due, some teachers say no: ‘There is no integrity to this system’

April 17, 2020 at 7:52 p.m.

The Chicago Teachers Union has decried Chicago Public Schools' decision that students will receive third-quarter grades, despite the coronavirus disrupting education. "The customary way of grading is inappropriate given remote...

An aerial view of an empty playground at Doolittle Elementary School in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood. School playgrounds will stay empty longer, with the governor's announcement Friday that schools will not reopen during this academic year.

No prom, no graduation, more remote learning: Dashed hopes that Illinois schools would reopen this year are a particular blow for class of 2020

April 17, 2020 at 7:32 p.m.

Alexandria Gee was planning to wear red to prom, and she'd picked out another nice dress for other end-of-the-year events, like graduation and her last choir concert. Now all those...

Shane Blake tends to alpacas at Chicago High School for Agriculture Sciences.

With Chicago’s agricultural high school closed due to COVID-19, a former student is keeping the farm running: ‘He cares for the animals and they respond in kind.’

April 14, 2020 at 9:03 a.m.

Angel the goat is due in May to give birth at the same high school where she was born three years ago, on a sprawling 78 acres in Chicago's Mount...

Schubert Elementary kindergarten teacher Mary Carey works in her virtual classroom at her home in Chicago. She has prerecorded a lesson for when remote learning begins April 13, 2020.

As remote learning officially begins in Chicago schools, one lesson will be the pandemic itself

April 13, 2020 at 9:04 a.m.

When Mary Carey's kindergarten students tune in for class Monday after a shut-in spring break, it will be the first time they've met with their teacher in four weeks. She's...

Third-grader Graciela Anderson works on her math homework on her iPad outside of her family's Streamwood home.

Grades can’t count against kids during Illinois’ coronavirus school shutdown. Does that mean less incentive to do the work?

April 9, 2020 at 1:00 a.m.

When e-learning began for three of her five children following the coronavirus school shutdown, St. Charles resident Krista Badani was delighted by their diligence. They all have Chromebooks, and for...

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