The building blocks for digita...
Six years ago, Chavez Multicultural Academic Center joined a district pilot program aimed at giving students more time in school in...
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A $27 million market
By Melissa Sanchez – When Microsoft co-founder and billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates spoke this spring to a packed ballroom...
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By Melissa Sanchez – Just over a decade ago, Chicago Public Schools launched a small office to identify low-income families who...
read moreSocial-emotional learning gain...
By Maureen Kelleher – Then In 2004, Illinois became the first state to require schools to teach social-emotional skills and to...
read moreWill Common Core spark improve...
When students don’t get higher-level reading skills in their middle and high school years, they often wind up in remedial...
read moreDozens of principals quitting ...
By Melissa Sanchez – Chicago Public Schools officials say 54 principals have resigned or retired so far this school year, the...
read more50 more schools get privatized...
Chicago School Board members unanimously voted to privatize building engineers in almost 50 schools, potentially putting engineers...
read moreInvestors earn max initial pay...
By Melissa Sanchez – Private investors who are paying $16.6 million for a four-year preschool expansion are now assured a...
read moreIllinois fiscal crisis threate...
By Melissa Sanchez – The recent higher education bill that sent $600 million in stopgap funding to public colleges and...
read moreBiggest charter networks given...
The city’s three largest charter networks were given flexibility to move open seats among their networks, making it easier to...
read moreMix-up in poverty counts puts ...
By Melissa Sanchez – An apparent undercount of low-income children in Chicago Public Schools could mean a loss of money for...
read moreWalton Foundation stops fundin...
As the political climate makes charter schools a tougher sell, the Walton Family Foundation decides that Chicago is no longer one of...
read moreCTU, CPS will head back to the...
The Chicago Teachers Union and CPS officials will head back to the bargaining table this Thursday, with both sides saying there is...
read moreBetter support for neighborhoo...
By Kalyn Belsha – A new report from a two-year-old initiative aimed at shoring up neighborhood high schools calls for a...
read moreOnline learning falls short wi...
By Melissa Sanchez – A study by two prestigious research groups found that Chicago public high school students who failed...
read moreUsing ‘innovation’ to get more...
By Kalyn Belsha – In Austin on the city’s West Side, early childhood advocates are going to extra lengths to find children who...
read moreTake 5: April 1 strike, biling...
By a 4-to-1 margin, the Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates voted Wednesday to hold a one-day strike on Friday, April 1. The...
read moreTeach For America sees cutback
In a first, Chicago Public Schools is moving to partner with a grassroots teacher preparation program backed by the Chicago Teachers...
read moreLow-income students left out o...
By Melissa Sanchez – In its debut, a recently rebranded Chicago education organization released research today showing that...
read moreCPS sues Byrd-Bennett, SUPES p...
The cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools has filed a civil lawsuit against disgraced former CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett and her...
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