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Jesse Sharkey, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, walks the picket line outside of Urban Prep Academies Englewood campus on June 8, 2021.

Teachers walk off the job at Chicago’s Urban Prep, the groundbreaking all-boys charter high school network

June 8, 2021 at 5:50 p.m.

With just two weeks left to the school year, teachers at the city's Urban Prep Academies' three charter high schools hit the picket line Monday, striking over what educators say...

Melissa Diaz-Viera participates in a restorative practices workshop with other teachers, staff and administrators from Elk Grove Village-based School District 59.

Summer school? Parents and teachers are just saying no, despite COVID-19 learning loss and federal relief funds to pay for it.

June 7, 2021 at 5:00 a.m.

After struggling through more than a year of remote learning, Dolton School District 149 finally received some encouraging news: An infusion of federal COVID-19 dollars would allow the district to...

Students walk through a sky bridge at Latin School of Chicago in 2020.

Latin School of Chicago teachers vote to unionize ‘despite intense anti-union pressure’

June 3, 2021 at 5:09 p.m.

Aiming to have a voice in school decision-making, educators at Latin School of Chicago have voted this week in support of forming a teachers union. The new Latin School Union,...

CPS launching anti-bias initiative and joining Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation

June 2, 2021 at 6:56 p.m.

Chicago Public School's departing CEO Janice Jackson says a new program expected to launch this fall that will make it easier for students and teachers to report bias-based incidents marks...

Michael Pacheco, 14, of Chicago, receives the first of two Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines from registered nurse Carissa Blumenshine at an Advocate Aurora Health vaccine center in Des Plaines on May 13, 2021.

How can we safely mingle in social settings with friends and family members who are not vaccinated? Should vaccinated people wear masks indoors in the short term? Is it safe for families to travel this summer with kids under 12 who aren’t vaccinated?

June 2, 2021 at 2:01 p.m.

Illinois COVID-19 questions answered: With mass vaccination sites winding down in Chicago and the suburbs, where can I get a shot? How should I time a mammogram after getting vaccinated?...

Third grader Aria works with youth development professional Emma Cruz during remote learning Thursday at a Union League Boys & Girls Club in Chicago's Pilsen area. The center provides remote learning help, meals, snacks and after-school activities for kids.

A piece of an $8 billion pie: Groups that run kids’ after-school programs don’t want to be left out of districts’ COVID-19 relief windfall

June 1, 2021 at 10:47 a.m.

With Illinois schools receiving billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief, nonprofits and community groups that help children and families hit hardest by the pandemic are making sure they're not...

Portrait of Magnus Shipinski, 16, a junior at Elmwood Park High School on Friday, May 28, 2021, in Elmwood Park. Shipinski is protesting his school district's pandemic era grading policy that for one semester temporarily stopped giving teens letter grades, and instead, gave them either a "P" for passing, or "I," indicating incomplete. (Stacey Wescott/baiduhai)

COVID-19 led some schools to drop letter grades. One suburban student is on a quest to get his back.

May 30, 2021 at 8:32 a.m.

When Elmwood Park High School eliminated letter grades last spring because of the COVID-19 pandemic, honor student Magnus Shipinski — who anticipated earning all As and one B — was...

COVID-19 vaccines for kids: UChicago medicine doctor to answer parents’ questions on Facebook Live

May 24, 2021 at 1:01 p.m.

With parents across Chicago and the suburbs scrambling to get COVID-19 vaccine shots in their kids' arms before the start of summer, the baiduhai will talk to the University...

Students Molly Savage, left, Matthew Leonardson and Jeanette Kristev participate in an Advanced Placement Latin class at Hinsdale South High School. Mandatory mask wearing has made it tough for both teachers and students to work on speaking skills.

Will foreign language classes be a COVID-19 casualty? Some schools are reducing offerings in Latin, German and other tongues.

May 17, 2021 at 3:36 p.m.

When Barrington High School French teacher Kathryn Wolfkiel's students returned to the classroom after months of COVID-19 remote learning, she quickly realized that mandatory mask-wearing would make speaking and comprehending...

Los estudiantes Molly Savage, izquierda, Matthew Leonardson y Jeanette Kristev participaron en una clase avanzada de latín en la secundaria Hinsdale South la semana pasada. El uso obligatorio de tapabocas ha dificultado tanto a los profesores como a los estudiantes trabajar en las destrezas del habla.

¿Serán las clases de idiomas una víctima del COVID-19? Algunas escuelas reducen las ofertas en latín, alemán y otras lenguas

May 17, 2021 at 2:12 p.m.

Cuando los estudiantes de francés de la profesora Kathryn Wolfkiel en la secundaria Barrington regresaron al aula después de meses de aprendizaje remoto de COVID-19, rápidamente se dio cuenta de...

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