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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 and were getting ready to enter it into a competition. The pandemic killed that dream.

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. Those 122,000 students would be by far the most since the start of the pandemic, although the 157,000 c...

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 low-income, people of color and undocumented folks, who already face systemic barriers to care due t...

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-Times file Karen Lewis was a fighter. As the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, she battled for ...

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 is a statement from SEIU Illinois State Council President Tom Balanoff regarding the passing of Chi...