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Feds investigate city schools

August 22, 2021 at 6:20 a.m.

Federal authorities have launched an investigation into the admissions practices at Chicago's selective enrollment schools, the baiduhai has learned. Federal officials served a grand jury subpoena on Chicago Public...

Internal probe at city schools

June 16, 2018 at 7:13 a.m.

Chicago Public Schools officials launched an investigation Wednesday into how students are admitted into the district's vaunted and highly competitive selective enrollment schools. School officials declined to publicly discuss the...

Internal probe at city schools

August 22, 2021 at 6:39 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools officials launched an investigation Wednesday into how students are admitted into the district's vaunted and highly competitive selective enrollment schools. School officials declined to publicly discuss the...

Internal probe at city schools

August 22, 2021 at 8:07 a.m.

Chicago Public Schools officials launched an investigation Wednesday into how students are admitted into the district's vaunted and highly competitive selective enrollment schools. School officials declined to publicly discuss the...

State’s school budget takes $180 million hit

August 22, 2021 at 9:03 a.m.

The Illinois State Board of Education slashed its budget by $180 million Tuesday, spreading the pain of the state's dire economic situation across dozens of programs that serve thousands of...

County sues regional schools chief

August 22, 2021 at 9:28 a.m.

The beleaguered superintendent of the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education came under increasing fire Monday as county officials sued him in civil court and the state moved to...

U. of I. athletic boosters get special treatment

June 17, 2018 at 8:14 p.m.

Devoted donors to the Fighting Illini are often thanked with prime stadium seats, first crack at tickets to bowl games or a chance to meet some of the school's marquee...

Athletic donors get special care

August 22, 2021 at 8:34 a.m.

Devoted donors to the Fighting Illini are often thanked with prime stadium seats, first crack at tickets to bowl games or a chance to meet some of the school's marquee...

School chief’s home, office raided

August 22, 2021 at 7:28 a.m.

Investigators raided the home and office of the Cook County regional schools superintendent Wednesday, carting out laptop computers, cell phones and boxes of files, sources said. Officials with the Cook...

Teachers union exec loses job on board vote

August 22, 2021 at 1:03 a.m.

The vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union is out of his job after the group's executive board voted to expel him following allegations of financial improprieties. Ted Dallas, a...

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