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The board voted 6-0 to reject the recommendation from Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez that teachers Lauren Bianchi and Charles “Chuck” Stark be terminated for violating safety rules involving protests and a trip to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Instead, they each got a warning and were directed to undergo training.

Chicago Public Schools’ governing board rejected a recommendation from the district to fire two educators who encouraged students to protest the General Iron...

CPS said the teachers engaged in “several significant policy violations," including rules over the transportation of students, which the teachers deny.

At a news conference Tuesday, educators, parents, students and alumni of George Washington High School made impassioned calls for Chicago Public Schools to erect new, safer buildings for the school after a beam fell from the school's ceiling during a recent storm.

But the mayor won praise for rejecting a permit to allow a car- and metal-shredding operation on the Southeast Side. ‘This is what environmental justice looks like,’ EPA Administrator Michael Regan said.

The facility would have been located at 11600 S. Burley Ave. in the East Side neighborhood.

The potential for air quality in the neighborhood to get even worse worries several of the students who spoke at Fridays rally.