Chicago Teachers Union has ‘ambitious’ goals for new contract
The current contract expires this summer. On top of raises for staff, the union wants help for unhoused students, more dual language education.
The current contract expires this summer. On top of raises for staff, the union wants help for unhoused students, more dual language education.
All schools that participated in the 2023 Pride Parade were denied entry this year, and teachers see irony in exclusion from “one of the most inclusive places that you can go.”
Chicago Public Schools recently wrapped up elections for Local School Councils, or LSCs, at more than 600 schools in the city.
“I just feel like I’m going to die paying off my student loans,” said one high school counselor in Southeast Chicago this week after the president introduced a plan to aid nearly 25 million more student loan borrowers.
Principals received their school budgets for next year, the first under a new system that focuses on needs of schools, rather than enrollment.
Che “Rhymefest” Smith’s district runs along the south lake shore. His opponent, Adam Parrott-Sheffer is a former principal. The election is in November.
Selective enrollment schools have roots in integration efforts — and the space race.
Historian Heather Ann Thompson sent copies of her Pulitzer Prize winning book to every prison library in Illinois after settling a lawsuit with the state.
Selective admissions started out as a way to integrate Chicago’s schools. It became a highly competitive program the school board wants to deemphasize.
Much of the public still knows little if anything about these elections, to be held in November, but groups are lining up to exert influence and educate.