Teachers: Proposed Northwest Side School Threatens Student Diversity
A Northwest Side alderman got an earful from community members over a proposal to build a new Taft High School campus.
A Northwest Side alderman got an earful from community members over a proposal to build a new Taft High School campus.
All CPS staff must take four days without pay this school year to help fill a more than $200 million budget gap, a decision the teachers union is challenging.
Chicago is putting up for sale about 40 properties, most of them empty school buildings shuttered in the historic 2013 school closings.
The schools, one in Homewood and the other in Oak Lawn, struggled to attract students and grappled with financial difficulties.
At the high school level, problems at home sometimes lead to students falling in with the wrong crowd — the crowd that’s not into school.
Officials at one public school falsified records to boost graduation rates, the school system’s inspector general confirmed.
Local School Council members are crying foul now that Chicago Public Schools is making it difficult for them to get full special education funding.
Supporters of the charter said the plan was withdrawn partly because of Gov. Bruce Rauner’s veto of $215 million earmarked for CPS.
WBEZ looks at how the district’s latest fiscal headache could affect teachers, parents and Chicago taxpayers.
How to pay for special education dominated Monday’s public hearings on Chicago Public Schools’ proposed budget.