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Chicago Public Schools is relaunching a program to reel in dropouts
The district rethought Back to Our Future after issues with recruitment and retention plagued the program, first launched ...
Black History Month: Celebrating the innovators, teachers and legends from Chicago and beyond
CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.
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Stock inhaler program in Chicago schools lowers asthma-related disturbances
In Chicago public schools that adopted a stock inhaler program, more students who used a stock inhaler for asthma symptoms ...
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CPS Now Expected to Save 4 of 7 Acero Charter Schools Slated for Closure
The Acero charter network announced last year plans to shutter Cruz K-12 as well as Casas, Cisneros, Fuentes, Paz, Santiago ...
Deportation threats make schools even more unsafe
Gun violence, school closures — and now, deportation threats. Schools are no longer secure and welcoming spaces for students and families. Who will fight to change that?
Chicago school closings today: Full list of schools closed, delayed amid extreme cold
As many as seven Chicago-area schools had announced delays, closures or e-learning Tuesday due as a cold weather advisory ...
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Editorial: City workers are afterthoughts in Chicago’s bizarre game of pension hot potato
The Municipal Employees‘ Annuity & Benefit Fund of Chicago is not a phrase that exactly trips off the tongue. But the pension plan covering the retirements of a hodgepodge of workers with the city of ...
Discontinued violence-prevention program for struggling teens revived with $25 million
A Chicago non-profit received $25 million in funding Thursday to lead a previously discontinued violence-prevention program ...