Changing start and end times to help kids — and school budgets
Research has shown that later school start times can boost the academic achievement and attendance of older students. But there was more to the decision to overhaul start and end times for one Midwestern district.
Monday was the first day to file petitions to serve on the 21-member, fully elected school board that will take oversight of Chicago Public Schools early next year.
Chicago school board campaign cash starts pouring in
In November, Chicagoans will elect all 21 members of the school board for the first time in history. Some of the roughly 40 active campaigns for those seats have raised more than $550,000 already.
