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Lawmakers have agreed on a voting map but are considering a last-minute proposal to accelerate moving to a fully elected board.
Chicago Public Schools officials announced the first enrollment increase the district has seen in a dozen years, with 1,185 more students this school year. At the first in a series of community meetings Thursday, the district also said its attendance rate has held steady despite the loss of bus service for thousands of students, and it shared efforts to devise a five-year road map for ...
Jianan Shi of the parent advocacy group Raise Your Hand will lead the new Chicago Board of Education.
Activists who’d long opposed mayoral control over Chicago Board of Education appointments won a victory in 2021 when Illinois legislators voted to shift authority over the state’s largest school system to a board chosen by the people. Two years later, just before 1 a.m. on May 26 in the waning hours of the Senate’s session, many of those same lawmakers hurriedly passed an amendment extending ...
Chicago’s mayoral candidates have many ties to public education and youth. Here’s an overview of what each person running for Chicago mayor in 2023 has done and how to learn more.