Board members voiced concern about proposed budgets that could trim $96 million from schools. But they disagreed over a proposed resolution to press state lawmakers for more revenue.
CPS surveyed custodians and principals. Most said schools aren’t cleaned well.
In an internal survey obtained by Chalkbeat, more than 75% of principals indicated they didn’t have enough staff to meet their building’s cleaning needs.
The district is slated to release budgets for its roughly 500 schools next week as it faces an enormous deficit and fading prospects of extra help from the state.
District officials say they feel good about ensuring fully staffed schools and greenlighting 45 student field trips to a downtown protest and other pro-labor activities.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has asked the Trump administration to abandon its push to dramatically revise a program that helps students from marginalized communities attend college.
The rally occurred as negotiations over a new contract have surpassed 10 months. Union organizers said lunchroom workers are the lowest-paid CPS employees.
The new three-year contract for CEO Macquline King does away with a provision that provided 180-day notice to her predecessor, Pedro Martinez, after he was fired without cause.
A majority of the Board of Education and the CTU are pushing for schools to close for students that day during a nationwide protest. But Macquline King said the district should continue instruction and ‘minimize disruption for families.’
School board debates over pushing Pritzker to avoid federal school choice program
The school board voted to approve a resolution that criticizes the federal government’s efforts “to expand and incentivize voucher or publicly funded scholarships for private schools.”
These teens learned about the risks of owning a gun. Some don't want one now.
The Project Unloaded program paid teens $150 to learn statistics on gun ownership and helped them create social media videos to share the information with their peers.
Latino officials call for more representation in CPS leadership
The officials raised their concerns in a public statement, calling for the district’s soon-to-be-permanent CEO to hire more Latino people for her cabinet and senior leadership jobs.
Dylan, NYC's first public school student detained by ICE, returns to class
The jubilation of Dylan’s return has been mixed with frequent reminders of the looming threat of immigration enforcement facing him and his classmates.
