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Cities Keep Changing Who Runs Schools. Are They Just Running in Place?

Erica Meltzer

Strapped for Cash: Districts OK Union Raises, Don’t Have the Money to Fund Them

Lauren Wagner

Feds Press CPS to End Black Student Initiative, Transgender Student Guidelines

Mila Koumpilova

For Some Kids, Getting to School Is Really Hard. They Still Need to Go Every Day

Hedy N. Chang & Elaine Allensworth

Why Local Education Organizations Matter, and Why They Matter More Now

Jose Eos Trinidad

Illinois Considers Lowering Scores Students Need to be Considered Proficient on State Exams

Samantha Smylie

Chicago Public Schools Once Again Puts 20 Closed Schools Up for Sale

Becky Vevea

Chicago Public Schools鈥� Black Student Success Plan Under Investigation Over DEI

Lauren Wagner

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez Picked to Lead Massachusetts Schools

Reema Amin

$1.5 Billion Chicago Teachers Union Contract Headed to Member Vote

Lauren Wagner

Chicago Black Student Success Plan Amid Backlash Against Race-Based Initiatives

Mila Koumpilova

Chicago Public Schools Launches Long-Awaited Site to Show How Schools Are Doing

Mila Koumpilova

40% of Chicago Teachers Are Chronically Absent. Those Gaps Carry Real Costs

Chad Aldeman

Judge Rules Chicago School Board Can’t Interfere with CEO Martinez’s Powers

Reema Amin

Chicago School Board Fires CEO Pedro Martinez

Reema Amin

Mayor Johnson Announces 10 of 11 Appointees for New Chicago Board of Education

Reema Amin & Becky Vevea

School Closures Are Way Down, but Delaying These Hard Choices Makes Things Worse

Chad Aldeman

Chicago Extends Deadline for $500 Grants to Help Families of Students with Disabilities

Reema Amin

Chicago, Its Teachers Union, and 鈥楳ayor CTU鈥檚鈥� Risky Power Grab

Greg Fournier

Chicago鈥檚 First School Board Race Brings a Mixed Bag of Ideologies

Greg Toppo

Big-City Districts Are Beset by Financial Dysfunction 鈥� and Kids Pay the Price

Marguerite Roza & Maggie Cicco

CPS Official Promoted Lead-Reducing Invention for School Water, Listed on Patent

Cam Rodriguez & Jew茅l Jackson

Chicago Is Running Out of Money. Its Teachers Union Wants 9% Raises Anyway

Chad Aldeman

Chicago is Winding Down a Trailblazing Program to Help Dropouts. What Happened?

Mila Koumpilova

Chicago Mayor’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Debt Plan for the District

Chad Aldeman

Chicago Fire: Chaos Reigns as School Board Quits & Elections Loom

Kevin Mahnken

All Chicago Board of Education Members to Resign

Reema Amin

Chicago School Closures Offer a Cautionary Tale for Dealing With Fiscal Cliff

Thomas Toch & Maureen Kelleher

Chicago Public Schools Plan Aims to Get More Kids to Attend Neighborhood Schools

Reema Amin & Mila Koumpilova

States Move to Correct Enrollment Discrimination After The 74鈥檚 Investigation

Jo Napolitano

74 Interview: Janice Jackson on Tutoring, Free College and Choice in Chicago

Linda Jacobson

Lawmakers Challenge Chicago School Board鈥檚 Choice Policy, Plans to Remove Police

Reema Amin & Samantha Smylie

鈥楤ungled鈥� Financial Aid Rollout Leaves Graduating Seniors in Limbo

Linda Jacobson

In New Book, Diverse Families Find Broken Schools, Broken Dreams in the 鈥楤urbs

Greg Toppo

Lost in the Policy Woods? Finding Your Way to Equity and Access with the Zaentz Navigator

Mark Swartz

6 Hidden & Not-So-Hidden Factors Driving America鈥檚 Student Absenteeism Crisis

Greg Toppo

Future of High School: Career Training Lessons from Chicago鈥檚 Suburbs

The 74

Schools Could Lose 136,000 Teaching Jobs When Federal COVID Funds Run Out

Chad Aldeman

In 3 Midwest Cities, Immigrants and Refugees Are Solving Teacher Shortages

Joshua Bay

How a Family COVID Project Became a Fun, Creative Outlet for Children Nationwide

Stacey Gillett

Video Campaign Gives Chicago Teens a Voice against Gun Violence

Nina Vinik

Hope Chicago: A Unique Scholarship That Sends Parents to College, Too

Greg Toppo

There’s Lots at Stake for Districts & Kids When Underenrolled Schools Stay Open

Chad Aldeman

For Chicago Girls Confronting Violence, A School Solution for Reducing PTSD

Marianna McMurdock

Controversial Gunshot Detectors on Minneapolis Schools, Cyber Attack Reveals

Mark Keierleber

Interview: Researcher Anthony Bryk on Chicago Schools鈥� 鈥楻adical鈥� New Direction

Kevin Mahnken

New Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson Inherits America鈥檚 Worst Teacher Pension Mess

Chad Aldeman

In Progressive Breakthrough, Teachers' Union Organizer Elected Mayor of Chicago

Kevin Mahnken

Competing K鈥�12 Visions Collide in Chicago Mayor鈥檚 Race

Kevin Mahnken

NY, Chicago, LA: Power Plays by the Nation’s 3 Largest Teachers Union Locals

Mike Antonucci

Elliot Regenstein on Writing an Ed Reform Book That Doesn鈥檛 Alienate Teachers

Conor P. Williams

As Outdoor Preschools Gain Traction, States Work to Unlock Funding

Leigh Giangreco

Quiet, Consistency, Deep Breaths, Nature: Ways to Create Calming Classrooms

Lo Patrick

New Study: $40 Stipend Draws Substitute Teachers into Hard-to-Staff Schools

Matthew A. Kraft, Grace Falken & Phyllis W. Jordan

10 Tips to Help Community Organizations Bring Needed Services into Schools

Sucada Bell & Karen Roddie

Student Voice: Pandemic Attendance Crisis is About More Than COVID

Andre Young

Reformers Leading 3 Largest School Districts Welcomed by Hope 鈥� and Headaches

Greg Toppo

New Partnerships for Student & Teacher Mental Health in Illinois Schools

Carmen I. Ayala

As COVID and culture wars roil schools, choice backers see an opening

Greg Toppo

Chicago Teachers Vote Against In-Person Learning. Mayor: Defies 鈥楥ommon Sense鈥�

Linda Jacobson

Swapping Mayoral Control for Elected School Boards Not the Smart Choice

Conor P. Williams

COVID-19 Vaccines Roll Out for Young Children in NYC, Early-Bird Families All Sm

Asher Lehrer-Small

Record-High Gun Violence Sweeps The Country, More than 1000 Kids Killed in 2021

Meghan Gallagher

Chicago鈥檚 New School Chief Has Long Record of Innovation in Texas

Beth Hawkins

NYC reaches $700K Student Sexual Assault Settlement

Mark Keierleber

Teachers鈥� Unions Leverage Reopenings

Mike Antonucci

Kids Keep Getting Hit, Even in Schools Where It鈥檚 Banned

Mark Keierleber

How Neil deGrasse Tyson Got a Chicago Senior Through the Pandemic

Jimmy Rodgers

Reopening Roadblocks & 7 Other Key Updates

Asher Lehrer-Small

12 Months After Pandemic Closed Schools, 12 Million Students Still Lack Reliable Internet

Linda Jacobson

It Won鈥檛 Be Surprising If Chicago Teachers Strike Over Reopening Schools, But It Could Change the Rules for Labor Actions in an Unprecedented Crisis

Mark Keierleber

Medical Accommodations for At-Risk Teachers Vary

Zo毛 Kirsch

Linker: How My Chicago Collaborative Supports Social-Emotional Health of Students, Teachers & Families Amid Online Learning and COVID Stress

Adenia Linker

Analysis: Time to View a First Language Not as a Barrier but as an Asset for English Learners & Celebrate Their Bilingual Successes

Karen Garibay-Mulattieri

鈥楾hat鈥檚 Not a Gap Year. That鈥檚 Just Not Going to College鈥�: COVID-19 Erodes Equity Gains of First-Generation College-Goers

Richard Whitmire

Student Voice: Decades After My Great-Grandmother Was Tear-Gassed, Taking Fresh Stock of the Land of the 鈥楩ree鈥�

Jimmy Rodgers

74 Interview: CASEL President on the Importance of Maintaining Quality in Social-Emotional Learning, Paying Attention to the Adults and Work as the Next SEL Frontier

Bekah McNeel

Whitmire: With DACA in Danger at the Supreme Court, The Against-All-Odds Success of These Undocumented College Grads Deserves Its Own Hearing

Richard Whitmire

Analysis: Chicago鈥檚 Teachers Union Agreed to Give Spending Control to Principals. Now, the Union Is Striking to Take It Away. That鈥檚 a Bad Move for Students

Marguerite Roza

Chicago Public Schools Routinely Mishandled Sexual Assault Cases and Violated Title IX. Experts Warn It鈥檚 No Outlier

Tyler Kingkade

Chicago Agrees to Reinvestigation of Sexual Abuse Complaints, Other Remedies After Federal Investigation Finds 鈥榃idespread and Systemic鈥� Title IX Violations

Carolyn Phenicie

RAW TEXT: Read the Education Department鈥檚 Findings of How Chicago Public Schools Mishandled Allegations of Student Abuse and Assault

The 74

Study: Chicago鈥檚 Civilian Monitoring Program Kept Kids Safe on School Commutes, Providing Possible Model for Urban Districts

Kevin Mahnken

74 Interview: Pulling All the Levers 鈥� Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson on Getting More Students to and Through College

Beth Hawkins

Jochim & Lavery: Can Teachers Bridge the Divide Between Unions and Charter Schools? Strikes in Chicago and L.A. Are Test Cases

Ashley Jochim & Lesley Lavery

As Chicago Faces Surge in Student Sexual Misconduct Reports, Advocates Warn the Problem Isn鈥檛 Unique to America鈥檚 3rd-Largest School System

Mark Keierleber

The Unwritten Story of Chicago鈥檚 Charter School Teacher Strike: Unions See Walkouts as Survival Tool

Mike Antonucci

Nation鈥檚 First Charter School Teacher Strike Shutters Class for 7,000 Students in Chicago

Laura Fay

Three Chicago Nonprofits Get $55 Million to Help Low-Income Students Graduate, Largest Gift Ever for Communities in Schools

Laura Fay

Not Your Average Student Council: How Chicago鈥檚 Student Voice Committees Are Giving Kids a Real Say in Their Schools

Kate Stringer

Chicago Heads Toward First Teacher Strike in History of Charter Schools

David Cantor