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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.

Chicago Public Schools is providing an early look at its budget for next school year.The district gave few details Wednesday, but the overall budget picture is exactly as expected: not good.Federal stimulus funding is running out, and school officials are putting the deficit at $720 million.That hol

Chicago Public Schools wants to close nine schools.

The University of Illinois President says the school had no choice but to raise tuition. New students in the fall will pay 6.9 percent more.President Michael Hogan says the rate will be locked in for four years, and when averaged out over that time, the students will pay an increase closer to t

The Chicago Public Schools this morning released a list of eight schools it wants to close beginning next school year. A ninth school will begin to phase out. Students at closing schools and some of their teachers will move to nearby schools the district says perform better.