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Private investors will get a half-million dollar payment because of the kindergarten readiness scores from the first cohort of a preschool expansion project they funded. Evaluators won’t calculate special education ‘savings’ until next year.
The state budget standoff jeopardizes college access & affordability for low-income, first-generation students who depend most heavily on state aid and publicly funded universities like Chicago State.
District officials are warning principals that their schools may lose poverty dollars due to an inexplicable undercount of low-income students this year.
As the political climate makes charter schools a tougher sell, the Walton Family Foundation decides that Chicago is no longer one of its “priority cities” slated to get millions to help open new charters.
Officials from the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools are heading back to the bargaining table just days after a third-party fact-finder issued a report largely siding with the district. CTU President Karen Lewis says it’s not definite teachers will strike, and if they do whether they’ll walk out this spring or next school year.
The Chicago Teachers Union rejected contract recommendations from a third-party fact-finder, starting the clock for a potential strike as early as May 16. It’s unclear, however, whether the union will hold a strike this school year or wait until the start of next school year.
Research out of Chicago finds that fewer students passed online credit recovery courses in algebra compared to students in traditional classes.
The Chicago Teachers Union House of Delegates voted to cancel the planned May elections, granting President Karen Lewis and her slate from the Caucus of Rank-and-file Educators an automatic re-election.
The House of Delegates votes today on whether teachers will go on a one-day strike on April 1. Some educators say they’ll go to work that day regardless of what delegates decide.
A report from a new Illinois education organization finds that low-income, black and Hispanic students are underrepresented in gifted programs in school districts.