School districts all around the state can apply for up to $25 million from the federal government under the latest Race to the Top competition. But first they have to agree to big changes—like personalized instruction for individual students and performance evaluations for everyone, including the superintendent and the school board.
Activists left an earlier rally that drew thousands to Daley Plaza, where a national nurses’ union called for a “Robin Hood” tax on banks’ financial transactions. Chicago police arrested at least one demonstrator as the nurses’ rally broke up.
More state control is coming to the troubled public schools in suburban North Chicago. The Illinois Board of Education voted Thursday to put a five-member panel in charge of North Chicago school finances.
State education officials stepped up involvement in suburban North Chicago last month, announcing plans to do something they’ve never done before – replace the locally elected school board.
A group of youth activists say data they’ve obtained shows more than 2,500 people 18 or younger have been arrested on Chicago Public Schools’ property since September.