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March can be a tricky month in Chicago. It may officially be spring, but that doesn't mean the city won't see more snow. And there were plenty of other comings and goings this month. Police Superintendent Jody Weis announced he was leaving the Chicago Police Department.

The Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union have different interpretations of an appellate court decision about layoffs of tenured teachers.The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Board of Education must develop a recall policy for laid off teachers. The Chicago Teache

Bede Sheppard is a senior researcher for Asia in the Children’s Rights Division of Human Rights Watch. He specializes in attacks on schools and teachers; the occupation of schools by security forces; and child domestic workers.

Some parents and teachers are sending a message to Chicago Public Schools officials to slow down.Last week, CPS announced plans to merge or close fourteen schools throughout the city.Monday night, parents, teachers and students formed a standing room only audience to speak their minds before a tas

Every month WBEZ education reporter Linda Lutton joins Eight Forty-Eight for Cheat Sheet - the unofficial, irreverent guide to Chicago’s Board of Education meetings.Parents and teachers sounded off on the district’s newest list of school closings.

More than 360 teachers in the northwest suburbs could lose their jobs at the end of the school year. That's if the District 300 school board can't bridge a $5 million budget gap. The state owes the district $11 million in categorical funds.

Ani Choying Drolma is a Nepali Buddhist nun, internationally renowned singer and social activist. She founded the Nuns Welfare Foundation in Nepal to support the education and welfare of Buddhist nuns. And recently Ani started a U.S. branch for her work called the Ani Foundation.