Is Charter School Unrest Chicago’s New Normal?
Chicago is facing its second charter strike in two months. Until recently, there were no unions or strikes at the city’s charter schools.
Chicago is facing its second charter strike in two months. Until recently, there were no unions or strikes at the city’s charter schools.
Teachers at four charter campuses are on strike after failing to reach a contract deal Monday night.
About 800 students gather to make sales pitches, close business deals, and compete against each other at a “virtual enterprise” conference.
Student moderators at a forum at Whitney Young High School grilled candidates on school closings, the teachers union and on legalizing pot.
Faced with a do-or-die $364,000 fundraising deadline of Jan. 7, St. Walter School beat its goal and gets to keep its doors open.
LGBTQ students in Illinois say they feel unsafe in their schools and face discrimination, a new survey finds.
Chicago’s St. Walter School faces an early January deadline to raise $364,000 or else they’ll become the latest Catholic school to close.
More than 500 teachers and nearly 7,500 students at Acero charter schools in Chicago are going back to class on Monday after days of intense negotiations.
Unionized teachers from one of the largest charter school networks in Chicago headed to the picket lines Tuesday.
Some 70,000 kids, nearly all black, lived through a school shakeup, WBEZ finds. At the same time, CPS opened almost 200 schools.