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Protesters gather in the Loop during a march calling for removal of Chicago police officers from Chicago Public Schools last year.

Some CPS schools could start year with 2 officers despite votes to reduce police presence; decision on CPD contract delayed

August 24, 2021 at 12:20 p.m.

A Chicago Board of Education vote on the district's controversial school police contract has been postponed indefinitely because the Chicago Police Department has requested a new review of the terms...

Jesse Sharkey, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, provides an update on school reopening negotiations outside Benito Juarez Community Academy in Pilsen last week.

CPS schools are safe to reopen next week, mayor insists, despite lack of teachers union deal: ‘We have a mountain of evidence of that fact’

August 23, 2021 at 5:17 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union have hammered out about 25% of a COVID-19 safety agreement with just a week to go until students return to classrooms for...

Ald. Maria Hadden, right, speaks to Ald. Matt Martin during a City Council meeting on May 26, 2021, at Chicago City Hall.

Aldermen, state lawmakers raise concerns about CPS fall reopening plans in letter to mayor

August 22, 2021 at 7:07 p.m.

As Chicago Public Schools students prepare to return to classrooms next week, a group of City Council and General Assembly members say they are "deeply concerned" about the district's COVID-19...

Jesse Sharkey, president of the Chicago Teachers Union, speaks at a news conference outside Benito Juarez Community Academy on Aug. 18, 2021.

Chicago Teachers Union has yet to reach agreement with CPS as start of school looms; district says CTU ‘is rejecting science for their own gain’

August 18, 2021 at 6:11 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union are at "an impasse" in negotiations over the fall reopening of schools with less than two weeks until students return for in-person...

Theodore Roosevelt High School in Albany Park where Chicago Public Schools opened a COVID-19 vaccination site for employees on March 17, 2021.

CPS will require COVID-19 vaccination for teachers, other employees

August 13, 2021 at 2:35 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools is requiring its employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they qualify for a medical or religious exemption, the district announced Friday. Employees without an approved medical...

The speed camera at 4831 W. Lawrence Ave. caught the second most speeders in the first two months after Mayor Lori Lightfoot started ticketing motorists driving as little as 6 mph over the speed limit.

Chicago speed cameras now ticket drivers going 6 mph over. The new rules resulted in about 300,000 citations and $11 million in fines in the first 2 months.

August 13, 2021 at 11:30 a.m.

Across the street from a car wash, next to a fenced-off former lumber yard stands one of Chicago's most prolific park safety speed cameras. And two blocks west on Lawrence...

State Superintendent of Education Carmen Ayala issued a declaration that fall classes will be in person for nearly everyone.

Despite calls for remote learning to continue, CPS says schools will reopen fully — and safely — in less than 3 weeks

August 11, 2021 at 6:03 p.m.

A group of Chicago Public Schools parents on Wednesday called on the district to provide a "serious" remote learning option as the highly transmissible delta variant drives a surge in...

Lisa Williams, left, talks to Jennifer Johnson, center, and Stacy Davis Gates of the Chicago Teachers Union as they go door to door in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago on Aug. 4 to talk about COVID-19 safety concerns as Chicago Public Schools prepare to reopen.

CPS, Chicago Teachers Union trade barbs in dueling letters as talks for fall reopening sputter 3 weeks before the start of school

August 6, 2021 at 5:22 p.m.

With just over three weeks to go until Chicago Public Schools reopen for the fall, leaders for CPS and the Chicago Teachers Union can't even agree on how and when...

Taryn Morser, right, and her 12-year-old son, Gabriel, who has asthma and has trouble wearing masks for long periods of time, near Edison Park Elementary School in Chicago Thursday. Edison Park is the school he attended in-person before the pandemic.

CPS is offering remote learning for students with medical needs. So far the district has received few applications.

August 5, 2021 at 6:13 p.m.

Hundreds of thousands of students are expected to return to Chicago Public Schools classrooms later this month, but Gabriel Morser won't be one of them. The 12-year-old was recently accepted...

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker speaks to the media at the formal opening of the K-Town Business Centre on West Polk Street in Chicago on Monday, June 28, 2021. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Chicago tendrá junta escolar electa pese a oposición de la alcaldesa Lightfoot

August 2, 2021 at 5:54 p.m.

Los votantes de Chicago elegirán a su junta escolar completa a partir de 2026 bajo una medida que el gobernador J.B. Pritzker promulgó el jueves, cumpliendo una promesa de campaña...

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