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Contract talks are set to begin between SEIU-backed janitors and various employers, including contractors for Chicago Public Schools.

CPS inspector general: Employee orchestrated $870K billing fraud

August 18, 2019 at 6:32 p.m.

A former Chicago Public Schools employee, with help from colleagues and vendors, orchestrated the theft of more than $870,000 by fraudulently billing the district for goods and services, according to...

Inmates sing during Christmas Mass, which Archbishop Blase Cupich presided over Thursday at Cook County Jail in Chicago.

New Catholic archbishop offers Mass to inmates

August 18, 2019 at 6:30 p.m.

Archbishop Blase Cupich opened Christmas morning with Mass inside a chapel at the Cook County Department of Corrections, urging inmates to know God's existence by living for others. "When we...

Archbishop Cupich opens Christmas Eve at children’s hospital

August 18, 2019 at 6:30 p.m.

Archbishop Blase Cupich began his first Christmas Eve at the helm of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago with a few words on suffering. The city's ninth archbishop visited Lurie Children's...

The federal government alleged in a lawsuit that the principal of Scammon Elementary School on Chicago's Northwest Side discriminated against pregnant teachers by giving them lower performance ratings and targeting them for firing.

Feds: Pregnant teachers at Chicago school rated poorly, targeted for firing

August 18, 2019 at 6:30 p.m.

Pregnant teachers at a Northwest Side elementary school received lowered performance ratings and were targeted for firing by their principal, according to a lawsuit the U.S. government filed Tuesday against...

Scammon Elementary School Principal Mary Weaver walks with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel at an event at the school in 2012.

Feds: Chicago school targeted pregnant teachers for firing

May 21, 2019 at 2:42 p.m.

The federal government has sued the Chicago Board of Education, alleging the district discriminated against pregnant teachers at a Northwest Side elementary school by targeting them for termination. The lawsuit...

Ald. John Arena, 45th, shown at a Chicago City Council meeting in February, told the Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday that a public school in his ward that serves special-needs students needs a full-time nurse.

CPS school for special-needs kids needs full-time nurse, alderman says

August 18, 2019 at 6:27 p.m.

A Norwood Park elementary school for students with special needs doesn't have a full-time nurse on staff, raising concerns about the district's ability to adequately tend to the health needs...

Nicholas J. Schuler, the department's interim chief officer since July 1, was appointed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel, above, to serve as inspector general for the Chicago Board of Education until the end of June 2018.

Emanuel appoints new CPS inspector general

August 18, 2019 at 6:27 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel has named a new inspector general to the Chicago Board of Education, a move set for a procedural vote when the board meets Wednesday. Nicholas J. Schuler,...

Luis Cortes studies with friend Alena Slavasheuskaya on Monday for finals at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The junior, a Chicago public high school graduate, has watched peers drop out of college because they were unprepared.

Study: More CPS graduates completing college, but rate still troubling

August 18, 2019 at 6:32 p.m.

Of 100 freshmen who start at a Chicago public high school, about 14 will graduate from a four-year college by their mid-20s, a number that has improved over time but...

The Confucius Institute has space in the Education Building on the campus of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

China-run Confucius Institutes under fire in U.S. schools, like CPS

August 18, 2019 at 6:22 p.m.

A congressional subcommittee on Thursday heard from critics who question the influence of the Chinese government on a language and culture program that is well established at Chicago Public Schools...

CPS chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett speaks at Penn Elementary in Chicago on the first day of school on Sept. 2, 2014.

CPS gives schools new ratings to judge success and trouble

August 18, 2019 at 6:22 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools officials unveiled new school performance ratings Wednesday that the district said will help educators and parents better identify struggling and successful schools. Under the system, most of...

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