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WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025.
WBEZ and the Sun-Times asked every Chicago Board of Education member about their background and what they want the board to focus on in 2025. Here’s what they said.
CEO Pedro Martinez said he doesn’t regret rebuking the mayor’s request that CPS take out a loan to cover a budget shortfall, which ended up costing him his job.
During a chaotic year on the board, Carolina Carchi, 18, said she tried to share the “experiences of students who may never get the chance to speak in a room full of adults with such influence.”
Gates’ leadership caucus, known as CORE, has led the CTU for 15 years. With one challenger, they won with 64% of the vote in Friday’s membership election, according to the CTU.
A slate of four teachers is running to try to unseat the current union leadership, led by CTU President Stacy Davis Gates. Results are expected Saturday.
The president claims the CEO is more focused on his future than on the “success of the school district.” CPS said district officials “remain fully committed to minimizing impacts on school communities.”
The Board of Education voted Thursday to name a committee chairman to monitor its plan even as Washington aims to end programs that single out any single group of students.
The Board of Education on Thursday approved the $1.5 billion, four-year deal that gives teachers 4-5% cost-of-living raises and lower class size limits.
Pedro Martinez was picked as commissioner of Massachusetts’ K-12 schools, with final approval pending. Martinez was fired without cause from CPS in December but is staying on until June.
CTU members have ratified their contract with Chicago Public Schools. We’ve got the highlights for parents.
All sides are declaring victory, including Mayor Brandon Johnson. The union’s governing body on Wednesday voted to send the tentative contact for a member ratification vote.
A key union committee threw its support behind an agreement with Chicago Public Schools Monday. It includes lower class size limits, more librarians and extra sports funding.
Sources confirm the two sides have concluded negotiations and will send the potential agreement to a union committee for approval on Monday.
School Board President Sean Harden on Thursday afternoon said CPS and CTU were “extremely close” to a deal. But the day ended without a deal, with a strike vote possible in the days ahead.
After 30 years with a CEO in charge, CPS’ next leader will be a superintendent. The board approved a resolution requiring a licensed educator to run the school district.
The memo comes as Mayor Brandon Johnson ramps up pressure on the school board to include in its amended budget a payment for a city pension fund that covers some CPS staff.
The financially strained school district cannot take on more debt that threatens to rob students of much-needed resources, a former principal and a parent write.
If the city does not get the payment before March 30, it will be in danger of closing its 2024 budget with a deficit, and Mayor Brandon Johnson will have to get City Council approval to reach into reserves to fill the hole.
At least 50 staffers were fired in Chicago or pushed out, including the entire Office for Civil Rights. The layoffs are part of a dramatic downsizing directed by the president.
City Clerk Anna Valencia has joined forces with Ald. Scott Waguespack (32nd) on a resolution directing the Council’s Committee on Ethics and Government Operations to create a subcommittee charged with “examining the process for appointing board members at sister agencies and establishing best practices relating to transparency, accountability and the democratic process.”
A Board of Education vote in December had spared seven Acero schools from closure for a year and promised to absorb five of them in 2026. But after extensive debate, the board determined Paz elementary and Cruz K-12 school should close this spring.