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Lincoln Park High School in Chicago in 2016.

Leaders removed, boys basketball season suspended amid allegations of ‘serious misconduct’ at Lincoln Park High School

February 3, 2020 at 8:26 a.m.

Lincoln Park High School's varsity boys basketball team is suspended from the season, and school leaders have been removed amid allegations of "serious misconduct," according to a letter sent to...

Whitney Young Magnet High School on Feb. 2, 2020.

With little oversight by Whitney Young leaders, swim coach gained ‘carte blanche’ access to pool, then stole thousands by renting it out, authorities allege

February 3, 2020 at 8:26 a.m.

Andrew Parro was 24 when he landed a full-time job at his alma mater, Whitney Young Magnet High School, where he had already been coaching swimming for several years. The...

More than 100,000 students did not attend class on Jan. 2, which initially was part of winter break but was turned into an attendance day to make up for one of the days missed during the October strike.

Nearly one-third of all CPS students missed school on the strike makeup days after winter break

January 17, 2020 at 8:18 p.m.

Nearly 1 out of 3 students in Chicago Public Schools were absent from class during the two most recent makeup days for the teachers strike this fall. The educator walkout...

Dashawn Higgins, a student at Robert Alfred Black Magnet Elementary, participates in the MLK Jr. Oratory Competition at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in Chicago on Jan. 17, 2020.

What would Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision be for 2020? ‘A change definitely needs to take place,’ says 9-year-old girl, winner of Chicago speech competition.

January 17, 2020 at 7:39 p.m.

In a carefully chosen black-and-white outfit, Mia Roberts paced the stage, punctuating her words by moving her arms through the air. She recited the introduction to the Rev. Martin Luther...

Lincoln Park High staff member removed amid probe of basketball team trip; coach Pat Gordon absent from Friday’s game

January 10, 2020 at 9:11 p.m.

Two staff members at Chicago high schools have been removed from their respective campuses amid investigations into activities that had "recently come to light," according to emails sent to parents...

A swim coach at Whitney Young in Chicago rented out school pool and pocketed $30,000, officials say. Now he’s charged with felony theft.

January 31, 2020 at 10:37 a.m.

As a high school athlete at Whitney Young, Andrew Parro earned multiple Chicago Public League titles in swimming, also lettering in water polo. As a swim coach at the same...

A new report by the Chicago Public Schools watchdog office outlines reports it received of mismanagement and misconduct, including residency fraud.

CPS employees caught living outside Chicago limits and lying about it face dismissal: ‘It’s a steady, constant problem’

January 7, 2020 at 6:16 a.m.

One Chicago Public Schools teacher lived in Glenview for all 14 years she worked in the district. Another provided false Chicago addresses to CPS for more than a decade while...

Sara Woitel and son Gage, 6, of Milwaukee, wait in a security line at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago on foggy Christmas Eve morning.

Getting home for the holidays frustrated by thick fog, with hundreds of Chicago flights delayed and canceled on Christmas Eve

December 24, 2019 at 6:49 p.m.

Fog led to hundreds of flight delays and cancellations Tuesday morning, launching a chain reaction that delayed travelers at the city's two airports as the clock ticked away hours that...

The isolated timeout space at the Southwest Cook County Special Ed Coop in Oak Forest. Elsewhere in the area, the Chicago Board of Education has updated its policy on isolation and restraints following a Tribune/ProPublica investigation.

CPS adopts new policy on timeouts and physical restraints following Tribune, ProPublica Illinois investigation

December 13, 2019 at 6:20 p.m.

The Chicago Board of Education has updated its policy on physical restraints and timeouts to comply with recent emergency action by the Illinois State Board of Education following a Chicago...

Walter Payton College Prep High School is one of the selective enrollment schools in Chicago, where students' tiers can affect their chances of getting in.

In CPS, ‘tiers’ are supposed to even the playing field for school admissions. But hundreds of students were placed in the wrong tier.

December 13, 2019 at 6:27 p.m.

Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools families could have made important decisions about their children's education using information provided by CPS that turned out to be wrong. Nearly 1,000 students were...

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