Education
Comprehensive education coverage for Chicago, including public schools, higher education, the Chicago Teachers Union and everything parents and students need to know.
The schools target Black, Brown, low-income students with their recruiting, offering promises of future economic stability that’s rarely fulfilled. Instead, students are left saddled with debt, in low-paying jobs that pay them what high school grads make, a WBEZ investigation has found.
Aproximadamente la mitad de los despidos afectaron a ayudantes de maestros. Oficiales de CPS dijeron que sólo cerca del 5% de todos los asistentes de maestros perdieron sus puestos y que la mayoría encontrarán trabajo en otras escuelas.
Over 80 first-time young voters and future voters from around the country gathered at the McCormick Foundation Center in Evanston to watch the unprecedented early presidential debate.
His acclaimed novel was published when he was 30, and he’d been guiding young writers ever since. He collapsed during a softball game and died.
The University of Chicago analysis released Wednesday found a reduction in high-level discipline infractions at schools that had gotten rid of cops, and that Black students were more likely to have officers in their schools than other racial groups.
Pritzker, who has made early education a focal point of his second term, said the state agency is intended to help simplify an overcomplicated process for parents.
Three 2.5-hour sessions will be held at City Colleges locations, starting July 22 at Malcolm X College. A fourth roundtable, open only to ages 13 to 24, will be at the Harold Washington Library.
The window for hopefuls to submit their minimum 1,000 signatures to get on the ballot closed Monday afternoon with more than two dozen final-day submissions wrapping up the week-long process that kicked off the elections.
A self-described hippie, Ms. Lurie moved to Chicago in 1973 to work as an intensive care nurse. She wound up giving tens of millions of dollars to Northwestern University, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Greater Chicago Food Depository, PAWS Chicago and several other organizations both in the city and beyond.
La antigua estación de bomberos de La Villita abrirá sus puertas como centro de artes de Yollocalli en el verano de 2025.
Doctors used a spinal anesthetic to numb the patient from the chest down, eliminating the use of narcotics and general anesthesia, cutting recovery time. The patient, John Nicholas, was released within 24 hours of the procedure.
National Museum of Mexican Art begins converting old Little Village firehouse into youth arts center
The former Little Village firehouse will open as Yollocalli arts center in the summer of 2025.
Currently, students ride for 75 cents, and during the school year. Unrestricted free passes would help kids and CPS families, 70% of whom have very low incomes.
That makes nine schools renamed since a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found 30 schools were named for slaveholders, and schools named after white people — mostly men — vastly outnumbered those named for African Americans, Latinos and indigenous people.
Christian Acevedo, 18, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to murder and attempted murder in the 2022 shootings.
Over-policing students, most of whom are Black, has turned our schools into punitive institutions that hurt the most vulnerable kids.
Brian Crowder, ex decano de los estudiantes en la Greater Lawndale High School for Social Justice, se declaró culpable el miércoles en un acuerdo con los fiscales, sólo para pedir un aplazamiento cuando se enteró que tendría que registrarse como ofensor sexual de por vida.
Prospective candidates took turns presenting their piles of papers for counting; officials had to confirm at least 1,000 signatures before they could be submitted. Candidates have until 5 p.m. next Monday to file.
The week-long process begins Monday, when hopefuls can start turning in to Chicago election officials the minimum 1,000 signatures needed from residents who support their candidacy in one of 10 districts. The races will shape up by the June 24 deadline.
We asked: What’s the most important advice you could offer the class of 2024? Here’s what you told us.