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All but 24 of 2,048 votes by school board members the former mayor appointed were unanimously approved — a 99% passage rate with 98% unanimity, the Sun-Times found.

DALLAS TWP. — The Dallas School Board approved a final budget for the upcoming 2023-24 school year with spending at a bit more than $44.56 million and no tax…

Sendhil Revuluri, a former teacher and longtime education advocate, has served in the role since 2019.

Sendhil Revuluri is stepping away after three years helping oversee Chicago Public Schools. A former teacher and district parent, he was appointed in 2019 by Mayor Lori Lightfoot.

Sendhil Revuluri, a former teacher and longtime education advocate, has served in the role since 2019.

In Let the Little Light Shine, a high-achieving Black school in Chicago’s South Side fights the tide of gentrification

A powerful palliative to racist narratives of the city, this doc spotlights brilliant and committed students and teachers fighting for what's right

Mayor Lori Lightfoot on Wednesday announced Chapman, a former Chicago Public Schools grad and chairwoman of the Far South Community Advisory Council, will fill the seat vacated by former board member Amy Rome last summer.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot picked Joyce Chapman, who founded the Pullman Community Development Corporation and is the chair of the Far South Side Community Action Council, to fill a seat that had been empty for nearly a year.

Here’s what else went on in Chicago and around the state. News Ashlee Rezin Garcia /Chicago Sun-Times Illinois set a record for a second straight day Wednesday with 55,865 people receiving COVID-19 vaccinations statewide, public health officials reported Thursday. That tops the 53,628 shots that were doled out Tuesday, as vaccine administration ramps up this week entering Phase 1B of Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s distribution plan. A total of 829,428 shots have gone into arms statewide in the six we...