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