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Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot joining University of Michigan staff as visiting professor
ANN ARBOR, Mich. (CBS DETROIT) — Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will join the University of Michigan staff in the fall as a visiting professor, the university announced on Thursday.Lightfoot, who was the first Black woman and the first openly gay person to lead the city, will join the Ford School of Public Policy to co-teach a strategic public policy consulting class. According to a news release, graduate students will pair with social impact not-for-profit organizations in Chicago and Michigan "to solve challenges those groups are facing in the delivery of services in their respective communities.""I have started a not-for-profit whose...
Childcare workers: Early childhood education 'at its breaking point' in Chicago
Chicagoans are facing a crisis when it comes to daycare and early childhood education, according to leaders with SEIU, who said the city needs to step in to help finance what the state and federal government are not covering.
Reconnecting with Julian Middle School
I was so glad to have the opportunity to go back to middle school as a presenter for Julian Middle School’s Career Day on May 23. It was an energizing experience to share what I do behind the scenes in library cataloging work. And it was special to be...
Proviso District 209 celebrates graduates
The Proviso Township High School District 209 had three big reasons to celebrate as its communities gathered for graduations on Saturday, June 8, at the University of Illinois-Chicago Credit Union 1 Pavilion. The district began the day honoring the 2024 graduating class from Proviso West High School, followed by Proviso...
OPRF breaks ground on $102M Project 2
Oak Park and River Forest High School celebrated the official start to the highly anticipated Project 2 this past week with a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday, June 4 at the high school. Supt. Greg Johnson welcomed board members, community members, students, and everyone who came out to celebrate the massive...
CPS Elementary Students Show Gains in English, Math on State Assessment
Elementary students across Chicago showed gains on statewide testing in English and math for a second year in a row — improvements officials said were largely driven by Black students. Chicago Public Schools on Thursday announced that preliminary state assessment figures show students in grades 3-8 achieved gains in...
CPS teacher residency program growing, helping fill classrooms
A first grade classroom at Nixon Elementary was filled with the voices of students reading Spanish books in unison — and shouts of excitement when they got the words right. At one table, kids read a picture book about the folklore mouse “Ratón Pérez.” At another, the focus was on a different character, the roach “La Cucaracha Martina.”
Lab Schools cuts German program, some sports teams
Anna Vermylen, a fourth-grader at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, and her father marched to the school early last Wednesday morning towing large rainbow signs that read “SAVE GERMAN.”. The Vermylens were among several dozen students, parents and teachers who had gathered before class on the last day...
Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union to hold first public bargaining session
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news.Chicagoans will get a window into collective bargaining between the city’s public school district and its teachers union at a first-of-its-kind meeting Friday night.Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union will hold a public bargaining session at Marquette Elementary in the city’s West Lawn neighborhood on the South Side. As of midday Wednesday, registration to attend in person had reached capacity, but officials said it will be livestreamed on YouTube.But at Friday night’s session — held on the first weekend of summer break —...
Julian’s new principal wants to engage with community
Nick Filipowski, the new principal at Percy Julian Middle School, hasn’t wasted any time getting to know the D97 community ahead of his July 1 start date. Already having attended the last board of education meeting, held on May 14, Filipowski told Wednesday Journal it was important to be part of the conversations.
Facing Shortfall of Nearly $400M, Chicago Public Schools Pushes Back Budget Release to July
Chicago Public Schools, which had been set to release its full district budget for the 2025 fiscal year Wednesday, has announced it will now publish that spending plan next month. CPS on Tuesday announced the CPS CEO Pedro Martinez had informed network and school leaders the final draft of its...
Safety and the middle schools
It is stunning, but not an actual surprise to hear dedicated teachers tell the District 97 school board that the middle schools are unsafe. Unsafe for some students. Unsafe far too often for teachers. This is not the first time we’ve heard this. In fact, in an engaging response to...
Chicago Public Schools’ performance on state tests returns to pre-pandemic levels in reading
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news.More Chicago public school students in third through eighth grade are proficient in reading than last year, exceeding pre-pandemic levels for the first time, according to preliminary state standardized test scores from this spring.While the math proficiency rates inched up, the percentage of students who are proficient still lags behind pre-pandemic levels.The Illinois Assessment of Readiness, or IAR, data released by the district on Thursday shows that 31% of elementary school students in Chicago Public Schools were proficient in reading, compared to 26% in 2023...
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