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In 2018, The Chicago Reporter filed more than 200 Freedom of Information Act requests, fought dozens of public agencies for access to records and sometimes we’ve even won. Here’s what we requested, what we’re still waiting for, and what we’ve learned along the way.
The state is legally required to publish data on the race and ethnicity of students who are disciplined in schools. Here’s why that’s not happening.
The state has stalled on requiring school districts with the highest suspension and expulsion rates to improve.
About a third of students leaving segregated, low-income Chicago schools end up back in majority black and poor suburban schools, our analysis shows.
Many families fleeing the poorest pockets of the city are ending up in cash-strapped school systems in the suburbs and northwest Indiana.
Many bilingual programs are violating state law by failing to provide adequate services to the district’s growing share of students whose native language is not English.
Muchos programas bilingües no cumplen la ley porque ofrecen servicios inadecuados al creciente porcentaje de alumnos cuyos idiomas natales no son inglés.
Eight years later, a lawsuit arguing that the state’s system of funding public education violates minority students’ civil rights presses forward.
A report from a new Illinois education organization finds that low-income, black and Hispanic students are underrepresented in gifted programs in school districts.
Parent activists want the state’s education board to change its tone on the opt-out movement. While official data has not been released, self-reported data from CPS principals indicate that 9,600 students refused to take the PARCC this spring.