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CPS budget to cut staff from 150 schools, add staff to low-enrollment schools: Chalkbeat analysis
The new budget for Chicago Public Schools will result in staff being cut from 150 schools, according to a new analysis. However, other schools will gain positions, which includes schools with some of the lowest enrollment numbers.
Disruptions at University of Chicago graduation as school withholds 4 diplomas over protests
CHICAGO (AP) — Dozens of students protesting the war in Gaza walked out of the University of Chicago’s commencement Saturday as the school withheld the diplomas of four seniors over their involvement with a pro-Palestinian encampment. The disruption to the rainy two-hour outdoor ceremony was brief, with shouts, boos and calls to “Stop Genocide.” A crowd of students walked out in between speeches and a demonstration followed the official ceremony. Some chanted as they held Palestinian flags while others donned traditional keffiyeh, black and white checkered scarves that represent Palestinian solidarity, over their robes. Four graduating seniors, including Youssef Haweh, were informed by email in recent days that their degrees would be withheld pending a disciplinary process related to complaints about the encampment, according to student group UChicago United for Palestine. “My diploma doesn’t matter when there are people in Palestine and in Gaza that will never walk a stage again, who will never receive a diploma. What about them? Who’s going to fight for them?” Haweh said in a Saturday statement.
481 graduate from Kenwood Academy
Four hundred and eighty one seniors graduated from Kenwood Academy on Tuesday in a cheerful ceremony that celebrated the final class to have their schooling impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. At the May 28 McCormick Place commencement, senior class president Nyla Newell brought students back to the spring of 2020.
UChicago faculty, seniors address alleged withholding of degrees over Gaza protest
University of Chicago faculty and graduating seniors held a news conference Friday morning to discuss four seniors whose degrees are allegedly being withheld due to a university disciplinary process.
University of Chicago students building satellite for NASA to launch into orbit
The University of Chicago "Cube-Sat" is smaller than a paper towel roll, but big science can come from small devices. The project's goal is to communicate with its ground station using a laser.
Letters saying kids had won seats at selective Chicago preschools sent by mistake
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Around 100 families said they were overjoyed to find out their kids were accepted into highly-competitive Chicago Public Schools preschool programs.But they were only to learn later that the offers were sent by mistake.Leslie and Tim Arnold applied for their daughter to attend preschool at CPS' Drummond Montessori Magnet School in Bucktown."We had applied, and Drummond was our first choice," said Leslie Arnold.Drummond Montessori, 1845 W. Cortland St., was described by the Chicago Tribune in 2008 as "harder to get into than Harvard."Families are enrolled in the coveted school through a lottery system."We'd received a notification that...
4 UChicago students denied diplomas pending disciplinary process after protests
CHICAGO — The University of Chicago is facing criticism for its disciplinary response to the campus protests against the war in Gaza. It is commencement weekend and at least four graduating students said their degress are being withheld pending the university’s disciplinary process. At a press conference Friday, one of those graduating seniors threw his robe […]
South Side middle school students get an interactive guided tour of a historic recording studio
A couple dozen students took the stage in the 35th Street Studios in McKinley Park, several of whom hopped on the mic during an interactive tour. The tour included information from the pros on pathways available for a career in the music industry.
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