Hannah Leone

Gisselle Moctezuma and her classmates listen to a science lesson from their teacher at Oakhill Elementary School on May 6, 2021, in Streamwood.

Illinois could require schools to teach fully in person this fall but has not issued a COVID-19 vaccine mandate

May 19, 2021 at 4:31 p.m.

When Tony Sanders learned the Illinois State Board of Education could mandate fully in-person classes next school year, he decided to delay a reopening presentation he'd planned for his school...

Mayor Lori Lightfoot, left, and Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson at CPS headquarters on Jan. 26, 2021.

Departing CPS CEO Janice Jackson has been tied to the district since preschool. Can her replacement succeed without such deep Chicago roots?

May 8, 2021 at 10:00 a.m.

School came naturally to Janice Jackson. Her father taught her to read and she enrolled in a Head Start prekindergarten program at Cook Elementary School in Chicago's Gresham neighborhood. She...

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.

Full-time in-person school will be default in the fall, departing CPS chief Janice Jackson says: ‘The mayor and I … pushed hard to get our kids back sooner’

May 4, 2021 at 10:54 p.m.

The departing leader of Chicago Public Schools anticipates that full-time in-person school will be the norm in the fall except for individual students with "extenuating circumstances." While announcing Monday that...

CPS CEO Janice Jackson announces departure; Chicago schools face leadership turnover with 2 other top officials also leaving

May 3, 2021 at 10:23 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson, who rose from a CPS Head Start student to lead the district through a teachers strike and the COVID-19 shutdown, will leave her post...

El superintendente de las Escuelas Católicas de Chicago, Jim Rigg, conversa con los maestros en un desayuno para padres antes de hacer un recorrido por la escuela Maternity B.V.M. en 2016.

Jim Rigg, quien dejará la superintendencia de las escuelas católicas de Chicago, acepta puesto similar en Miami

April 26, 2021 at 10:35 p.m.

Jim Rigg, quien anunció en marzo que renunciaría como superintendente de escuelas católicas de la Arquidiócesis de Chicago, fue nombrado superintendente de escuelas de la Arquidiócesis de Miami. Luego de...

Chicago Catholic Schools Superintendent Jim Rigg chats with teachers at a parent breakfast before going on a tour of Maternity B.V.M. School in 2016.

Jim Rigg, who is stepping down as superintendent of Chicago’s Catholic schools, tapped for similar job in Miami

April 26, 2021 at 10:01 p.m.

Jim Rigg, who announced in March he was resigning as superintendent of Catholic schools for the Archdiocese of Chicago, has been named superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Miami....

CPS plans for daily in-person classes, a remote learning option and bigger school budgets next fall

April 22, 2021 at 12:29 a.m.

Chicago Public Schools is planning for daily in-person classes this fall and is giving schools $225 million more than last year in an effort to address students' academic, social and...

‘The first day of school, in April’: CPS high schools reopen 13 months after COVID-19 shutdowns

April 19, 2021 at 9:57 p.m.

Just 40 minutes before in-person classes started Monday morning for the first time in more than a year at Chicago's King College Prep, Caleb Fulton was the only student outside...

Chicago Teachers Union members and supporters gather outside Jungman Elementary School in the Pilsen neighborhood Jan. 18, 2021, for a news conference and march.

Hundreds of CPS students and staff are in quarantine, but as high schools reopen, COVID-19 cases remain isolated in the district so far

April 19, 2021 at 6:19 p.m.

Days before Chicago Public Schools' spring break, two learning pods and 24 close contacts had to quarantine because of two confirmed cases of COVID-19 at Solomon Elementary. Christopher Smith's second...

Rod Moyer says goodbye to his daughter, Ra'Nhi, 6, a kindergartener, outside Saucedo Scholastic Academy on March 1, 2021, as Chicago Public Schools opened to tens of thousands of kindergarten through fifth graders.

Without a high school vaccine plan, Chicago Teachers Union plans remote work action Wednesday

April 13, 2021 at 5:55 p.m.

Vaccine hunting for students and families was the next logical step in the mutual aid efforts of Mueze Bawany and his colleagues at Roberto Clemente Community Academy in Humboldt Park....

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