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Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times William Kingsbury is a senior, but he said it felt like his very first day as he stepped onto the vast Lane Tech College Prep campus Monday morning. Kingsbury, 17, said he had no idea what to expect. “I remember the first week (of lockdown). Nobody thought it was going to last this long,” he said. “Then a year later, here we are.” He said he felt a little bit cheated. Before lockdown, he and other members of the robotics team had just finished their project...

Sun-Times files A little less than half of Chicago Public Schools students are anticipated to return to classrooms Monday for the start of the fourth academic quarter, when for the first time in 11 months all 515 non-charter schools — including high schools — will be open for in-person learning. With 36% of high schoolers and nearly half of elementary school students planning to return, CPS could have up to 44% of its 279,000 students at non-charter schools back in classrooms this week. Tho...

Photo by Alex Brandon - Pool/Getty Images While I am excited for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to usher in a progressive agenda, the crushingly repressive regime in place for the last four years won’t disappear overnight. Despite significant gains in health care access under the Affordable Care Act, the federal policies of the Trump administration, paired with decreased federal funding, have significantly eroded equal access to health care. Those people most affected by these restrictions are ...

Former CTU president Karen Lewis “really challenged the popular understanding about public schools,” said Robert Bruno, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “She did take on the mayor. She did take on the school board, but Karen was speaking about public education and how public education had been put at risk. ... She wasn’t afraid to call out names and identify people in a very unvarnished, sometimes profane, but always profound way.”  Brian Jackson/ Sun-Ti...

Senate President Don Harmon statement on the passing of Karen Lewis: “I cherished Karen’s friendship and mentorship and will always be better for it. She was an amazing person, devoted teacher, champion of the professional educator and skilled leader. She was one of a kind, dedicated to her core to challenging and changing lives and communities. We are indebted to her service and leadership, for which she will be remembered and forever missed.” …Adding… Press release… The following...

Fox News "failed" to disclose Amy Jacobson's side gig as a radio talk show host while letting her slam teachers.

Updated 2/2/2021 6:21 AM Twice in the past three days Amy Jacobson appeared on the Fox News morning show "Fox & Friends" to comment on the dispute over reopening Chicago Public Schools for in-person learning, Robert Feder writes. On the air Jacobson was identified only as "a Chicago parent and volleyball coach" before she launched into a broadside against the Chicago Teachers Union for keeping kids out of school.   "I think a lot of people enjoy working from their homes in Florida and their ho...

Ric  Trunk Music.” The track follows Wilson’s summer protest anthem, “ Fight Like Ida B & Marsha P,” “a bass-thumping ode to resistance, a history lesson coated in a honey-thick, infectious beat” ( Interview Magazine), and  Terrace  Pitchfork Music Festival in 2019, backed by the  Lane Tech high school marching band. With production from  LPXIV, “Trunk Music” is brassy and low-key, featuring  Sam Veren (trumpet),  Reggie G...