More than half the city’s schools are under-enrolled and serve poor and black or Latino students. Some of these half-empty schools are just blocks from new construction that mostly benefited wealthier white families.
WBEZ this week released an investigation that shows Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel spends millions on new school buildings and annexes that largely benefit white and middle-class students. He is now announcing more of those projects—just not publicly. Media were excluded from a meeting at Skinner Elementary that included elected members of the local school council. A lawyer with the Better Government Association if a majority of council members were there, the exclusion violates state law.
Ald. Walter Burnett represents two schools with opposite problems: one is packed full, while the other remains under-enrolled.
Cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools is spending millions on new schools and additions, many of them right near existing schools with extra space. The practice is often further cementing race and class segregation in the school district.
City Colleges of Chicago trustees this week will vote on whether to approve a shrinking budget.
Chicago aldermen are bashing City Colleges of Chicago’s plans to move advanced early childhood development classes to Truman College on the city’s north side.
City Colleges of Chicago chancellor Cheryl Hyman did something she almost never does: confront criticism.
Nearly five dozen principals are retiring or resigning, leaving the Local School Councils searching for new leaders at a critical time.
New results from CPS testing reveal one fountain’s water with 23 times more lead than the federal limit.
Several hundred people gathered at the corner of Halsted and Roscoe, in the heart of Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood, for a vigil.
