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Ald. Jeanette Taylor, chair of the City Council's Education Committee chair, said she’s disappointed that Johnson and his allies in the Chicago Teachers Union backed away from the fully elected, 21-member board he once supported. “This is not going to be as easy a transition as people think," she said. "We’re used to a top-down system."

Black students bypass neighborhood schools for other options more than any other group. Two moms explain their different choices.

Opposition among parents, teachers and students remains high to the forced return to schools agreed to by the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) in the midst of an unprecedented surge of the Omicron variant.