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Black student reading levels have hit their lowest levels in the city in 30 years, advocates say. They are now calling on CPS to do more to help the students.

The group gathered to illuminate the challenges that Black students face in Chicago Public Schools.

Activists who’d long opposed mayoral control over Chicago Board of Education appointments won a victory in 2021 when Illinois legislators voted to shift authority over the state’s largest school system to a board chosen by the people. Two years later, just before 1 a.m. on May 26 in the waning hours of the Senate’s session, many of those same lawmakers hurriedly passed an amendment extending ...

Chicago's Black community has expressed worries over the city's plan to dole out $51 million to assist migrants in the city. On May 31, the Chicago City Council passed the $51 million [...]

Council approved $51M for migrant housing

Black Chicago citizens flooded the city council meeting to express concerns over its plan to allocate $51 million to support migrants.

Furious South Shore Chicago residents who overwhelmingly voted for President Biden during the last election have angrily spoken out against the hundreds of migrants being brought to the area.

Furious residents of Chicago have filed a lawsuit against the city after it announced plans to house illegal immigrants in a disused high school in the South Side.

South Shore residents and organizations have filed suit over plans to use shuttered South Shore High School for a migrant respite center.

Pandemic, by 8th grade, less than 90% of children were proficient in reading and math. we didnt have a strong proficiency rate. there was an academic gap that already persisted and now you add on the fact that our students are now sitting at a laptop, and we have data to show, in fact, my group that im a part of called the black community collaborative, we did a foia, a freedom of information to pool cpss data for the grades around k through 12 and the attendance. what we found is it was a catas...