District officials will hear from Near South Side community members this week about a proposal to expand the attendance boundary for the new high school CPS is planning to phase in at the National Teachers Academy.
Education
Aug 2, 2018 |
There’s a shortage of male teachers in Illinois classrooms, particularly those who are African-American and Latino. How the University of Illinois at Chicago is hoping to change that.
Aug 1, 2018 |
National Teachers Academy parents want a Cook County judge to step in and halt Chicago Public Schools’ plan to transform their elementary school into a high school.
Jul 31, 2018 |
A for-profit company that contracts with Chicago Public Schools comes under fire in a new report for its connections to convicted former CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett.
Jul 26, 2018 |
Chicago Public Schools implemented local school councils almost 30 years ago with hundreds of thousands of participants. Times have changed.
Jul 25, 2018 |
Some are questioning the way Chicago Public Schools is spending its biggest budget in the last five years.
Jul 25, 2018 |
Parents from a South Side high school are calling on CPS leaders to bring back their ousted principal, a month after an investigation revealed he had failed to safeguard students from abuse.
District requiring students take writing course by 5th grade after state law change
Chicago Public Schools is updating its teaching policy around the handwriting form to meet new state law requirements.
Jul 23, 2018 |
The University of Illinois at Chicago is merging with the John Marshall Law School, creating the first and only public law school in Chicago.
Jul 23, 2018 |
The Board of Education this week will vote on updates to its student code of conduct policy in an effort to promote equitable discipline practices throughout the school district.
Jul 16, 2018 |
The district says it will spend $26 million to add 160 social workers and 94 special education case managers in schools across the city.
Jul 11, 2018 |
CPS Inspector General Nicholas Schuler is looking to hire a dozen employees to staff a new dedicated unit tasked with investigating sexual abuse allegations made by district students.
Jul 6, 2018 |
The school district says this will be its largest capital spending plan in more than two decades. But the Chicago Teachers Union believes it’s a “hollow and dishonest” election-year stunt by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
Jul 3, 2018 |
One in four CPS schools failed a recent round of blitz inspections designed to examine things like overall cleanliness and pest control. See if your school passed or failed its inspection.
Jun 27, 2018 |
District officials wants employees to "over-report" anything they believe could be sexual abuse inside schools. But educators worry about the practicality of that proposal.
Jun 27, 2018 |
Parents of Chicago’s special education students say they have concerns about the state's choice of an independent monitor to oversee the district's special education program.
