CPS To Launch Office To Protect Students From Sexual Abuse
The $3 million office comes after an investigation found CPS had repeatedly failed to protect students from sexual abuse by school workers.
The $3 million office comes after an investigation found CPS had repeatedly failed to protect students from sexual abuse by school workers.
High school students who miss 20 percent of a year are supposed to be held back. Chicago Public Schools wants to drop that requirement.
Two young women described experiences with sexual abuse by Chicago school staff to outraged state lawmakers at a hearing on Wednesday.
The board is heeding the inspector general’s call to give him the responsibility of looking into sexual misconduct at district schools.
Despite leaky roofs and broken boilers, CPS under Mayor Emanuel spends more on new construction and upgrades than on repairs.
Chicago Public Schools’ inspector general calls on the school district to end free preschool for students from the richest area in the city.
UChicago research finds students from 50 schools that were closed in 2013 aren’t better off academically now, despite promises otherwise.
A state-appointed monitor will oversee special education in Chicago after a state inquiry finds changes to the program violated federal law.
A new school is going up, but CPS won’t say who it will serve. The final decision is bound up in questions of race and city priorities.
The state wants a monitor to oversee special education in Chicago Public Schools after finding recent reforms violated federal law.