Dunbar Vocational: Whose Jobs Are They Anyway?
Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced last month that Dunbar High School was to get a new building trades program. Then things got complicated.
Sarah Karp
Reporter, Education
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Chicago Principal Grapples With Potential Budget Cuts
One principal is leaving a school in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods to run a magnet school in one of the wealthiest.
CPS Principals Could Be Forced To Cut School Budgets
Principals at Chicago Public Schools hear they could be forced to cut school budgets by 20 percent. One principal is leaving a school in one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods to run a magnet school in one of the wealthiest.
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Caught in the Middle: Grow Your Own Teachers
The budget impasse has left some future teachers in a dilemma. They were counting on a state program to help them with tuition.
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CTU Says A Strike Is Near- So What’s Next?
What’s next in the fight between the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools? Answers to the big questions.
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Teachers Reject Mediator’s Plan, Strike Looms
The Chicago Teachers Union quickly rejected contract recommendations from a third party mediator this weekend. It starts a 30-day countdown to a strike.
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Chicago Teachers Stage Rare 1-day Strike
CPS will no longer consider April 1 a regular school day, but will keep at least 250 schools open.
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Will Parents Opt Their Kids Out Of PARCC Test Like Last Year?
Schools are in the middle of giving the controversial state mandated test to students.
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CTU Strike: How Did We Get Here?
Follow the timeline of the struggle between Chicago Public Schools, Springfield and the teachers’ union.
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Parents, Teachers Take Advantage Of CPS Furlough Day
From a garden clean-up in Bridgeport to a field trip by a Northwest Side school to the Illinois Holocaust Museum.
