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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 announces COVID-19 vaccination for teachers will begin in February, but union is still prepping for a possible walkout

January 22, 2021 at 5:36 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools unveiled its coronavirus vaccination plan for teachers Friday, saying the district will start providing doses to staff members in mid-February. School nurses will administer the vaccines at...

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

As CTU begins vote on refusing in-person teaching, CPS says union ‘wants to close schools that are already safely open’

January 21, 2021 at 9:13 a.m.

Chicago Teachers Union members have until Saturday to vote on a collective action to defy Chicago Public Schools and refuse to report to school buildings starting Monday, continuing remote learning...

With possible teacher strike vote looming, CPS chief says union talks need to focus on how, not whether, to reopen schools

January 19, 2021 at 7:40 p.m.

The Chicago Teachers Union's governing body is expected to convene Wednesday and could send a vote to members as soon as Thursday to strike or take other collective action as...

CPS head says she wants to compromise with teachers but in-person classes must remain an option. CTU says time is running out for an agreement.

January 15, 2021 at 8:09 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson said Friday that the district wants to reach a compromise with the teachers union on the contentious reopening of schools, but that it has...

As new COVID-19 cases emerge in Chicago Public Schools, families plead for reinstatement of locked-out teachers

January 15, 2021 at 6:49 a.m.

As Chicago Public Schools works through its first week of in-person learning since March, 100 educators are still considered absent without leave, meaning they have been denied pay and locked...

Moises Moreno speaks as people demonstrate on Jan. 5, 2021, outside the Thompson Center in favor of an Illinois Senate bill that would give Chicago Public Schools an elected board of education.

Bill to give Chicago an elected school board fails again as backers cast blame on Mayor Lightfoot: ‘Why are Chicago politicians so afraid of democracy?’

January 14, 2021 at 1:01 p.m.

As the Illinois General Assembly's lame-duck session wound down Wednesday without a vote on a bill that would give Chicago Public Schools an elected board of education, proponents accused Mayor...

Which CPS schools and areas of the city have the most returning students for in-person classes? Search our map and list.

January 13, 2021 at 1:28 p.m.

As Chicago Public Schools begins docking pay and locking teachers out of Google accounts for refusing to return to classrooms they feel are unsafe, many students have still been learning...

As CPS schools reopen, district vows to ‘hold employees accountable who are not reporting to work’ and will begin docking pay Tuesday

January 12, 2021 at 10:02 a.m.

As students disembarked yellow buses at socially distanced stops Monday morning outside Southside Occupational Academy High School, a staff member took their temperatures with a handheld scanner. Once cleared, each...

CPS schools welcome students back for the first time in 10 months, even as Chicago extends its stay-at-home advisory and the teachers union continues to resist

January 11, 2021 at 4:24 p.m.

When the emergence of the novel coronavirus prompted a statewide school shutdown back in March, probably few Chicagoans thought another 10 months would go by before their public schools would...

Vaughn High was the first Chicago school to close due to COVID-19. Today, it’s among CPS buildings that will reopen to students for the first time since March.

January 11, 2021 at 10:26 a.m.

When Chicago's Vaughn Occupational High School closed in March after a classroom assistant had one of the state's earliest known cases of COVID-19, Cindy Fah-Ok agreed that swift action was...

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