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Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson answers questions on Sept. 13, 2018, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel looks on after announcing a consent decree for changes in the police force. The city inspector general criticized the department's oversight of officers assigned to public schools.

Police who patrol Chicago schools lack recruitment, training standards, city inspector general says

May 23, 2019 at 1:16 a.m.

The Chicago Police Department provides no clear directives on how it selects, trains and evaluates officers assigned to patrol public schools, according to a report released Thursday from the city...

Johnson Elementary School, where pedophile Marvin Lovett worked before he was shot dead by one of his teen victims. Lovett was accused of sexually abusing at least 19 boys in the North Lawndale community.

Long-buried report concluded Chicago school principal ignored warnings in horrific sexual abuse case

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Marvin Lovett was a trusted mentor to students at Johnson Elementary School. He also was a pedophile. Lovett used a camera hidden in his apartment closet to make secret pornographic...

Elizabeth Lopez hugs a classmate after graduating with the Benito Juarez Community Academy class of 2018 during a ceremony at Navy Pier in Chicago. Roughly 78 percent of high schoolers graduated in 2018 within five years of starting ninth grade, according to CPS statistics.

CPS’ graduation rate is ticking up, but it needs ‘exponential’ growth to meet mayor’s pledge

May 31, 2019 at 4:05 p.m.

High school graduation rates at Chicago Public Schools inched ahead for another consecutive year, but they leave the city needing what district CEO Janice Jackson described as “exponential” growth to...

Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson has committed to sharing background check results publicly, though the district has said it will not answer questions about the outcomes until the process is finished.

Days before school starts, CPS still won’t say how many workers have been disqualified by background checks

May 23, 2019 at 1:13 a.m.

With less than a week to go before the official start of Chicago Public Schools’ academic year, the full results of an enormous effort to check the backgrounds of tens...

Joshlynn Lyons, 14, a CPS freshman, demonstrates Aug. 22, 2018, outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters in support of safe schools and special education. Inside, officials approved rules changes for how students and staff communicate with each other online.

CPS board votes to bar communication between students, teachers on personal devices

May 23, 2019 at 1:12 a.m.

The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday approved sweeping requirements that govern how students and staff communicate with each other online, even as board members expressed concern about the need...

Los estudiantes y los trabajadores de las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago podrían enfrentar nuevas restricciones sobre cómo se comunican a través de las redes sociales o los dispositivos móviles.

CPS cambiaría cómo interactúan maestros y estudiantes

December 12, 2018 at 7:35 p.m.

Los estudiantes y trabajadores de uno de los sistemas escolares más grandes del país pronto enfrentarían nuevas y estridentes restricciones sobre cómo interactúan a través de las redes sociales y...

Chicago Public Schools students and workers may face new restrictions on how how they communicate via social media or mobile devices.

New Chicago Public Schools policies may bar students from texting teachers, coaches — and vice versa

May 23, 2019 at 1:12 a.m.

Students and workers at one of the country’s largest school systems may soon face strident new restrictions on how they interact via social media and mobile devices, according to new...

A law firm's review found "systemic defciencies" in how officials dealt with the issue of sexual misconduct in Chicago Public Schools.

Report: Chicago Public Schools ‘failed to recognize’ extent of systemwide sexual abuse problem

May 23, 2019 at 1:11 a.m.

Broad failures at all levels of Chicago Public Schools kept officials from preventing and responding to sexual abuse suffered by students in the nation’s third-largest school system, according to a...

Chicago Public Schools predicts only 50 freshmen will enroll in classes at Hirsch High School.

‘Twelve students is too small for one class.’ Study shows thousands of 9th-grade seats in CPS to remain empty

May 23, 2019 at 1:10 a.m.

As of last month, not a single incoming ninth-grader had accepted an invitation to attend Hirsch High School in Chicago’s Grand Crossing neighborhood when classes begin in September. Only one...

Former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett leaves the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on Oct. 13, 2015. Byrd- Bennett pleaded guilty to one fraud count in an alleged scheme to steer $23 million in no-bid contracts to education firms for $2.3 million in bribes and kickbacks.

Company used convicted Chicago schools chief in ‘highly unethical’ work to win millions in CPS business, watchdog finds

December 12, 2018 at 10:31 p.m.

A for-profit company that educates at-risk students won tens of millions of dollars from Chicago Public Schools with help from then-CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and her co-conspirators in a separate bribery...

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