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January 26, 2024
Ahead of a Chicago Board of Education vote Thursday on renewing contracts with 49 publicly funded charter schools, supporters, including parents, educators and advocates, rallied to demand longer renewal terms than the one to four years Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez recommended. The board later approved each proposed renewal agreement in a series of unanimous votes, with two ...
January 25, 2024
The two schools around Little Village, Instituto Health Science Career Academy and Instituto Justice and Leadership Academy, enroll a total of 550 students.
May 11, 2023
Acero operates 15 charter schools in Chicago; they were the site of the first teachers strike at a charter school in the country in 2018.
May 8, 2023
Hope Learning Academy, which contracts with Chicago Public Schools to operate, abruptly announced this spring that it will shut down.
April 4, 2023
CHICAGO—All through the heated and confrontational Chicago mayoral race, crime seems to have been the top topic in the Windy City, especially for one of the two finalists.