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Fourth grade students sit in their classroom at St. Odilo’s Catholic Elementary School in Berwyn on Feb. 2, 2024. Invest in Kids was signed into law in 2017, which gave individuals and corporations a 75% tax credit, capped at $1 million, on donations to private school scholarships. Illinois lawmakers have ended Invest in Kids funding.(Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

Public school students outperformed tax credit scholarship recipients at private schools, report says

February 28, 2024 at 7:44 p.m.

A new study found that Invest in Kids scholarship recipients in private school lag behind their public school peers in math and reading.

Organizer Essence Gatheright rallies against resource officers in schools with dozens of Chicago Public School students and supporters outside CPS headquarters, Feb. 22, 2024. (Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

Chicago Board of Education moves to pull resource officers out of schools

February 23, 2024 at 1:47 p.m.

Chicago Board of Education plans to remove police officers from schools next school year.

Striking teachers at Instituto Health Science Career Academy and their supporters from the Chicago Teachers Union walk a picket line in front of the school on South Western Avenue on Feb. 6, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Chicago Teachers Union and Instituto del Progreso Latino reach a tentative agreement to end strike

February 12, 2024 at 5:21 p.m.

Chicago Teachers Union and Instituto del Progreso Latino reach a tentative deal to end strike at two local charter schools

Chicago Teachers Union members strike on Feb. 6, 2024, outside Instituto Health and Science Career Academy on Western Avenue in Chicago. (Antonio Perez/ baiduhai)

CTU launches strike at two charter schools, demanding increased special education staff and protections for immigrant students and employees

February 7, 2024 at 11:38 a.m.

Chicago Teachers Union members are on strike at two CPS charter schools operated by Instituto del Progreso Latino, the union announced early Tuesday morning.

Chicago Public Schools security guards patrol the campus at Senn High School in Chicago, on Feb. 1, 2024, the day after three students were shot, one fatally. (Vincent Alban/baiduhai)

Plan to end mandated hiring of police as school security guards awaits CPS approval, union says

February 6, 2024 at 6:39 p.m.

The support personnel union is in talks with the school district to hire civilians instead in part-time security guard positions.

CPS high school students sit down on La Salle Street in front of the City Hall to call for a cease-fire in Israel-Hamas War on Jan. 30, 2024.

Students walk out at several CPS schools to demand City Council support cease-fire in Gaza

February 1, 2024 at 4:49 p.m.

At about a dozen high schools across Chicago Tuesday, students are holding walkouts to demand aldermen vote in favor of a cease-fire resolution.

CPS charter school parents and supporters hold a rally outside of Chicago Public Schools headquarters ahead of school renewal decisions at the Chicago Board of Education meeting on Jan. 25, 2024.

Board of Ed renews charter contracts, as CTU threatens strikes at 2 schools

January 25, 2024 at 7:30 p.m.

Ahead of a Chicago Board of Education vote Thursday on renewing contracts with 49 publicly funded charter schools, supporters, including parents, educators and advocates, rallied to demand longer renewal terms...

CPS headquarters on Dec. 14, 2023. The Chicago Board of Education voted to transition away from policies that drive students away from neighborhood schools, making charter and selective enrollment parents nervous.

A CPS commitment to prioritize neighborhood schools sparked roiling debate. Among parents and educators, questions abound.

January 25, 2024 at 4:40 p.m.

At Peirce Elementary School in Edgewater on Tuesday, Chicago Public Schools officials again addressed fears of school closures swirling among some district families since the Chicago Board of Education voted...

Ice forms around the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse on Lake Michigan after sunrise after a week with temperatures around zero, Jan. 21, 2024.

After blanket of snow, winter storm warning remains in place for Chicago area with frigid cold wave on its way

January 12, 2024 at 7:17 p.m.

Gusty wind and sleet cut through the air Friday as 8-year-old Stella Dmytrenko-Hreczuch stood with her plastic snowboard next to a hill in Humboldt Park. Though as much as 8...

Will Fletcher, inspector general at Chicago Public Schools, in his office on Jan. 9, 2024.

Chicago Public Schools told to add more training for vendors, address sexual and financial misconduct in annual report from Office of Inspector General

January 9, 2024 at 5:52 p.m.

In the Chicago Public Schools Office of Inspector General's annual report released Tuesday, the district watchdog urged CPS to adopt new training protocols for volunteers and vendors as part of...

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