Carnegie Elementary News Today

There is a school-based effort to fight back against hunger in Carnegie.

Students walked out at Booker T. Washington and adults lined the sidewalk outside of Hale High School in support of Tulsa Public Schools as the #oklaed board met Thursday.

"Some of the older kids are incredibly stressed. We just try to reassure them as parents that we will try to protect and fight for them," Amber Turner said. #oklaed

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was arrested in Chicago 60 years ago this week. Then a 21-year-old University of Chicago student, Sanders was charged with resisting arrest during an Aug. 12, 1963 demonstration in Englewood — along with comedian Dick Gregory and 54 others — against the use of mobile classrooms in the city’s public schools. Chicago Public Schools superintendent Benjamin Willis ...

A truck towing what appeared to be a pair of house trailers pulled up to Parker Elementary School on Jan. 15, 1962. The aluminum structures, ordered by the Chicago Board of Education and built by Colonial Mobile Homes Manufacturing Co. of Hammond, were unhitched and joined together, creating a “mobile classroom.” The mobile home company’s president, Dominic Conte, was proud of the ...

Local headlines for Friday, May 5, 2023

A Chicago Public School staff member was remembered Thursday after he died from COVID-19. 

The highly contagious COVID omicron variant hasn’t been confirmed here locally, but authorities predict it's days away. Chicago is currently averaging over 600 COVID cases a day. The positivity rate is 4.1%

Protesters chanted “Let them play!” as public health officials tried to speak at the protest.

Chicago health officials say the rapidly spreading omicron COVID-19 variant will likely be detected in the city “within a number of days.”