Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Board of Education

CPS scraps plans for new $120M Near South Side high school — for now

Pedro Martinez, the school system’s chief executive, made the surprise announcement at Wednesday’s school board meeting at which members were expected to debate and vote on the plan.

Chicago Sun-Times

Does Chicago’s Near South Side need a new $120 million high school?

With Chicago Public Schools enrollment falling, the Chicago Board of Education is about to take up plans to build a new high school near Chinatown.

Chicago Sun-Times

Decades after special education law and key ruling, updates still languish

It has been 40 years since the U.S. Supreme Court first took up a case about special education in public schools, Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley. In that case, the court ruled that a deaf student didn’t qualify for a sign-language interpreter because…

The Conversation

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

CPS to tighten school security in wake of Texas school massacre, CEO says

Before the Uvalde massacre, the CPS operational budget included money for improving school security, Martinez said. But after hearing the details of what went on in Texas, some principals are demanding an “even more aggressive” response.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS’ $175M pension payment narrowly approved by Board of Ed as City Hall ripped for saddling district with debt

The board voted 3-2 Wednesday to increase CPS’ obligation to the underfunded pensions to more than triple what it paid in 2020. Before that, the city covered the full cost.

Chicago Sun-Times

Massive CPS data breach exposes records of 560,000 students, employees

The staff and student information was exposed after a CPS vendor was targeted in a ransomware attack on Dec. 1, the district said.

Chicago Sun-Times

The fight against school segregation began in South Carolina, long before it ended with Brown v. Board

When it comes to the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that outlawed school segregation, the focus is often on Topeka, Kansas, the home of the Brown family and the school board that it sued. But the story of the case actually had several…

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

US schools are not racially integrated, despite decades of effort

Nearly seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the court’s declared goal of integrated education is still not yet achieved.

The Conversation

Eggers offers replacements for South Dakota banned books

Best-selling author Dave Eggers is offering high school seniors in South Dakota’s second-largest city free copies of his book “The Circle” and copies of four books by other authors that were removed from the district’s schools

The Independent UK

Lightfoot leaves Board of Education seat empty after arguing against elected board

The mayor fought against an elected board, saying it was imperative she appoint all its members. Leaving a seat open for 9 months — especially with two more vacancies looming — is “problematic,” one lawmaker said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Editorial: Many questions and few answers on math textbook ban

On the website of Houston-based Accelerate Learning is a group photo of young people, lined up and holding hands.

Tribune News Service

Parents protest school budget cuts as CPS CEO defends against ‘incomplete’ claims

About 150 parents with several community groups rallied outside CPS’ Loop headquarters Wednesday ahead of the monthly Board of Education meeting to decry budget cuts at their schools.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS to scrap school ratings, replace them with less ‘punitive’ system

Though a replacement hasn’t yet been created or publicly detailed, the Board of Education is expected to vote Wednesday on the parameters for a new system to replace the School Quality Rating Policy (SQRP).

Chicago Sun-Times

'The frustration is deep': In Wyandotte County, Kansas, anger growing over political setbacks

First, Kansas lawmakers approved a congressional map that divides Wyandotte County for the first time in 40 years.

Tribune News Service

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Axios

Hurdles remain 75 years after key Latino segregation case

The 1947 Mendez v. Westminster ruling set up the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision, but its legacy is overshadowed.

Los Angeles Times

Tutoring, a key learning recovery strategy, reaches fewer than 1 in 10 LA students

LOS ANGELES — Tutoring, considered a cornerstone to academic recovery from the pandemic, has reached fewer than 1 in 10 Los Angeles students, a sign of continuing challenges in efforts to help students in the nation's second-largest school system.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS to settle 2 special ed students’ sex assault lawsuits for $1.5M

The agreements come after the Board of Education approved a $1 million settlement last month in a similar complaint by a special education student at a North Side elementary school.

Chicago Tribune

Masks are staying in Chicago Public Schools, but some parents demand to know ‘where is the COVID-19 off-ramp?’

CHICAGO — The mask mandate in Chicago Public Schools was the first order of business at Wednesday’s Board of Education meeting, which President Miguel del Valle opened by restating that masks are staying on in schools, despite the imminent end of the city’s requirement.

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS board affirms mask mandate, but CEO hopes they can be optional before end of school year

"I do predict there’ll be a day we can go mask optional," CPS CEO Pedro Martinez told the Board of Education at its meeting Wednesday. "And I would love that to happen before the end of the school year."

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS reaches settlements in 3 special ed students’ sex assault lawsuits

The Board of Education approved a $1 million payment in a case involving an alleged attack by another student in a bathroom at a Rogers Park school.

Los Angeles Times

Mark Z. Barabak: From liberal San Francisco, school board recall is a three-alarm warning for Democrats

San Francisco is quite familiar with earthquakes, and what happened Tuesday — the ouster of three extreme lefties from the Board of Education — was not one of those.

Reason

San Francisco Voters Fire 3 School Board Members

"Progressive" school COVID policies no longer welcome in the capital of progressivism

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Why Biden should look beyond the judiciary for his Supreme Court nominee

When Earl Warren became chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1953, only one of the nine justices had served as a judge before joining the court. After the landmark court ruling the next year that ended segregation, court detractors masked their resentment of Brown v. Board of Education with…

Chicago Sun-Times

CPS puts up vigorous court fight over disabled student’s claim he was sexually assaulted in 2016

In legal filings, officials have attacked the student’s testimony as "self-serving" and cast doubts as to whether an assault even occurred. The district has probed whether the incident was consensual and if the student’s parents had told him it was bad to be gay.

The Conversation

Overruling Roe may not be conservatives' best strategy – Brown v. Board of Education shows how Supreme Court can uphold precedent while gutting its meaning

Tens of thousands of anti-abortion protesters are expected to descend on Washington on Jan. 21, 2022, for the March for Life rally – as they have done annually since 1974 to protest the Roe v. Wade ruling of the previous year.

1 2 3 4

People

Elizabeth ToddBreland

16 stories

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Department of Education

357 stories

Chicago Public Schools

296 stories

University of California

Chicago Board of Education

26 stories

SFUSD

10 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.