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Lincoln Park High School reinstated dean John Johnson, from left, reinstated assistant coach Donovan Robinson, partially reinstated girls basketball coach Larry Washington and fired varsity boys basketball coach Pat Gordon. They, along with two fired administrators who filed lawsuits last year, have been dubbed the "Lincoln Park Six" by the lawyer representing the four men who also filed suits against CPS.

Lincoln Park High School basketball scandal: A girl blamed, a team supported and, so far, 6 lawsuits

July 2, 2021 at 4:27 p.m.

Surrounded by students holding out iPhones, with news cameras lining the sidewalk, the female student listened as the boys varsity basketball team's star player made a case for letting the...

Ebonie Davis drops off her 6-year-old daughter, Layla Scott, who has her temperature taken, before boarding a school bus for in-person learning in Chicago, Jan. 11, 2021. At right is her twin daughter, Leah Scott.

A strange and challenging year of pandemic learning is almost over as CPS breaks for summer: ‘I don’t take things for granted anymore.’

June 21, 2021 at 9:00 p.m.

A grueling pandemic-altered school year that pushed parents, students and educators to the brink is finally coming to an end Tuesday, when Chicago Public Schools adjourns for a much-needed summer...

Nombran a José Torres como líder interino de CPS

June 14, 2021 at 7:43 p.m.

El educador José Torres fue nombrado como director ejecutivo interino de las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago (CPS), donde anteriormente supervisó una red de 25 escuelas en las comunidades del sur...

CPS graduates during the pandemic: 5 charts to help understand the trends

June 4, 2021 at 2:29 p.m.

How has COVID-19 affected college enrollment, and what makes a student successful on the path to a degree? Two recently published reports by the University of Chicago Consortium on School...

CPS graduate Arthur Wells got a full scholarship to a four-year school. But when tuition went up the second year, he could no longer afford it and transferred to City Colleges of Chicago.

A maze, not a path: For CPS grads, there’s no standard route from high school diploma to college degree. And the pandemic has added many detours.

June 4, 2021 at 2:31 p.m.

In her second semester at a predominantly white institution, Robyn Smith decided to transfer to a historically Black school. A tuition increase prompted Arthur Wells to switch from a four-year...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot spoke Wednesday during a groundbreaking ceremony for the AIDS Garden Chicago.

Mayor Lightfoot knocks elected school board compromise for Chicago Public Schools as ‘having nothing to do with democracy’ but says it’s ‘not real yet’

June 3, 2021 at 1:18 a.m.

The day after the Illinois Senate passed a compromise bill that would phase in a fully elected, 21-member Chicago Board of Education, Mayor Lori Lightfoot emphasized that it's not yet...

Students head to their classes at Wendell Phillips Academy High School in Chicago in 2011. Phillips is an AUSL turnaround school, but CPS is ending that program and reverting 31 AUSL schools to CPS management.

CPS to take back ‘turnaround’ schools: Controversial program that saw schools shift to private operators and teachers fired is being dismantled

May 28, 2021 at 11:33 p.m.

Nearly three dozen Chicago Public Schools will return to district management in a three-year phaseout of a privately operated "turnaround" program described by one school board member as a "relic"...

Freshmen line up for screening as CPS high school students return for in-school learning at Lincoln Park High School for the time since the COVID-19 pandemic shut schools on April 19, 2021.

CPS fall plans: Full-time in-person classes, virtual academy for medically fragile kids — and as many students vaccinated as possible

May 27, 2021 at 12:43 a.m.

While preparing for fully in-person classes this fall, Chicago Public Schools officials on Wednesday said they are also working on a centralized virtual academy for students with qualifying medical conditions....

CPS parent Bridget White speaks as Black and brown organizers, families and advocacy groups rally outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters on May 26, 2021, to demand a vote on the elected school board bill.

Calls for an elected school board in Chicago intensify, state Senate leader says he’s still looking for a compromise

May 26, 2021 at 11:00 p.m.

Families, community organizers and elected officials gathered Wednesday outside the Chicago Board of Education's Loop headquarters to press their plea for a fully elected school board, but in Springfield it...

Pre-kindergarten instructor Angela Panush helps a student with his lunch as others in the classroom eat at their desks on the first day of in-person learning at Dawes Elementary School in Chicago in January. Kindergarten through 12th grade schools would be required to have full-time in-person classes in the fall under a proposed new state rule.

Illinois schools must reopen full time this fall, but mandate raises new questions about who will still qualify for remote learning and how quarantines will work

May 26, 2021 at 8:40 p.m.

The Illinois State Board of Education on Wednesday adopted a resolution requiring daily in-person learning next school year with limited exceptions for remote learning. Several parents speaking at the ISBE...

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