Chicago public schools

Thousands of Chicago students remained out of school for a second straight day Thursday after leaders of the nation’s third-largest school district failed to resolve a deepening clash with the influential teachers union over COVID-19 safety protocols.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago’s mayor on Tuesday accused leaders of the city’s powerful teachers union of using its “political agenda” to hold up a contract agreement to end a strike that will keep students from classrooms for at least 10 days. Chicago Public Schools canceled classes for Wednesday after the Chicago Teachers Union’s House of […]

The Chicago Public School Boycott of 1963, also known as “Freedom Day,” took place 55 years ago today. The protest involved some 200,000 students and tens of thousands of city residents united in solidarity, but it would take almost twenty  years before the city acknowledged desegregation measures. Despite the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision “Brown […]

Illinois launches an investigation of Chicago Public School's finances. The governor plans to take control of the financially troubled school district.

Chicago police have reported that Barbara Byrd-Bennett, The former CEO of Chicago Public Schools,  was charged in connection with allegedly steering a $20.5 million contract and other jobs, to her former employer. The Chicago Sun Times reports: Byrd-Bennett — Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s handpicked choice  —  becomes CPS’ first CEO to face criminal charges in connection […]

CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago public school district announced Thursday that it was laying off about 2,100 teachers and support staff — a figure more than twice as large as the teachers union head was expecting and one the district blamed on the Legislature’s failure to reach a deal on pension reform. The Chicago Public […]

Tom, Sybil and special guest comedian Chris Paul talk about the lottery, a black principal who had sex with a boy he met online, Chicago schools closing and a liquor store giving a scholarship.