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Kenwood Academy Principal Karen Calloway stands in the school's media center. Her staff is finding ways to help students during remote learning.

CPS high schools still have no reopening date. Here’s how one principal is helping her students cope in the meantime.

February 20, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

Lacking a high school return date and facing students disengaged with remote learning, Principal Karen Calloway of Chicago's Kenwood Academy opened a learning hub in the library where up to...

Rod Moyer says goodbye to his daughter, Ra'Nhi, 6, a kindergartener, outside Saucedo Scholastic Academy on March 1, 2021, as Chicago Public Schools opened to tens of thousands of kindergarten through fifth graders.

CPS schools reopen — again — with celebration and contention, as alderman calls CTU fight a ‘hostage takeover of our children’

February 11, 2021 at 2:33 p.m.

Suzanne Lucio's 4-year-old son Roman had his outfit picked out as soon as he heard the news that in-person learning at Chicago Public Schools would resume on Thursday: a T-shirt...

A student gets her temperature checked as she arrives for the first day of classes at Southside Occupational High School in Chicago on Jan. 11, 2021.

Chicago Public Schools is reopening after a bitter union fight. Now the hard part begins: Rebuilding trust, and making good on COVID-19 protection vows.

February 11, 2021 at 2:57 p.m.

Though Chicago Teachers Union members voted 2-to-1 in favor of a reopening deal with Chicago Public Schools, the union's mood has been less than celebratory about the resumption of in-person...

Chicago Teachers Union members and supporters gather outside Jungman Elementary School in the Pilsen neighborhood Jan. 18, 2021, for a news conference and march.

Chicago Teachers Union sends school reopening plan to members; delegates cast no-confidence vote against Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPS to ‘reflect their disgust’

February 9, 2021 at 9:10 a.m.

Chicago Teachers Union delegates have agreed to ask all 25,000 members to vote on a tentative reopening deal with Chicago Public Schools. The majority of the 600-member House of Delegates...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot: Chicago Public Schools and the teachers union reach a tentative reopening deal ‘at long last’

February 7, 2021 at 7:25 p.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot and the Chicago Teachers Union reached a tentative deal Sunday to reopen city schools for families seeking in-person instruction, narrowly avoiding a strike but contingent on broader...

CPS proposes slower phase-in for school reopening but CTU says any new lockouts would spur a strike: ‘We don’t leave people behind’

February 5, 2021 at 9:23 p.m.

In their latest move to try to wrangle an agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union over the reopening of schools, Chicago Public Schools leaders announced late Friday that they've proposed...

Illinois lawmakers call on Chicago mayor to compromise with teachers to avoid a CPS strike. But Lori Lightfoot says her patience has run out.

February 4, 2021 at 9:38 p.m.

Despite Chicago Public Schools extending a "cooling off" period through Thursday, Mayor Lori Lightfoot started the day casting blame on the Chicago Teachers Union for the lack of an agreement...

In-person classes delayed again as CPS and CTU still have no deal to avoid teachers strike. Here’s where they stand on key issues.

February 3, 2021 at 10:48 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools late Wednesday announced another delay in the resumption of in-person classes after failing again to reach a school reopening agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union. "We are...

CPS calls for 2 days of ‘cooling off’ as it reports progress in averting a CTU strike; remote learning continues Tuesday and Wednesday

February 1, 2021 at 8:36 p.m.

Withdrawing threats to lock out educators who refused to work in person Monday, Chicago Public Schools and city officials called for a two-day "cooling-off" period during which educators will be...

School district and union talks fall apart as Lightfoot pushes reopening to Tuesday

February 1, 2021 at 5:06 a.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has ordered all Chicago Public Schools teachers who don't have permission to stay home due to medical concerns to come back to the classroom Monday, setting up...

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