Six things to know about affirmative action ahead of Supreme Court ruling this month
Justices may ban the consideration of race — which could have ripple effects beyond who gets admitted to college.
Justices may ban the consideration of race — which could have ripple effects beyond who gets admitted to college.
Five months ago, the CTU accused now-former Mayor Lori Lightfoot of stepping in to rescind a promise by her hand-picked school leadership to give CPS employees the parental leave benefit.
Mayor Brandon Johnson says he opposes closing schools and our investigation shows they didn’t help students or communities. We explore the alternatives.
Gov. JB Pritzker has traveled the state this week to tout the budget’s funding of his Smart Start initiative, a focal point of his 2024 budget aimed at improving access to preschool.
Asian American college applicants have been cast as victims of affirmative action, often unwillingly, a researcher and activist tells WBEZ.
A new analysis shows the mass closings didn’t fix structural inequalities of the city’s public school system as promised.
We find out what happened to schools that absorbed students from the 50 schools that Chicago closed in 2013 as part of an on-going investigation by WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times.
It’s graduation season in Chicago. Over the weekend, families and friends gathered at Malcolm X College on the Near West Side to celebrate a set of unconventional high school grads.
The Sun-Times and WBEZ found that school officials failed to protect these welcoming schools and the $155 million invested in them over time.
Chicago closed 50 schools in 2013, saying this would help students. But our analysis shows little changed academically for the affected kids.