Black History Month: Celebrating the innovators, teachers and legends from Chicago and beyond
CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.
As distraught parents plead, school board votes to keep Acero charter schools open, despite financial warning
The Chicago school board voted to keep open all of the seven schools slated for closure in the Acero Charter Network through ...
Dozens rally against closings of Acero charter schools, report of ICE agent near a school
A community member sent a video showing the moments Acero Schools said an adult was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs ...
Former CEO of Indianapolis charter schools defrauded network of nearly $1 million
Former Tindley charter school network CEO Brian Metcalf pleaded guilty to two of the nine counts of wire fraud outlined in an ...
Daywatch: What we know about primary elections in Chicago’s suburbs
Good morning, Chicago. Primary elections were held last night in Chicago’s suburbs, and several well-known names were on the ...
Chicago Public Schools’ Black student success plan hit with federal legal challenge
In a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, a national group claims the plan is discriminatory, citing efforts by ...
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Stock inhaler program in Chicago schools lowers asthma-related disturbances
In Chicago public schools that adopted a stock inhaler program, more students who used a stock inhaler for asthma symptoms ...
Forrest Claypool: Chicago is holding itself back from a bright future
“The word bankruptcy has been hanging over Chicago like a storm cloud about to burst,” wrote American Enterprise Institute ...
Chicago Schools’ Bid to Boost Black Student Achievement Draws Legal Challenge
Schools are under scrutiny following President Trump’s moves to limit race-based initiatives.
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Chicago Public Schools is relaunching a program to reel in dropouts
The district is bringing in the Metropolitan Family Services to help relaunch the program and oversee nonprofits that will ...
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Editorial: City workers are afterthoughts in Chicago’s bizarre game of pension hot potato
The Municipal Employees‘ Annuity & Benefit Fund of Chicago is not a phrase that exactly trips off the tongue. But the pension plan covering the retirements of a hodgepodge of workers with the city of ...