All seven members of the Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday announced they’ll step down, opening the door for Mayor Lori Lightfoot to overhaul the board that controls Chicago Public Schools. “We’re very, very proud of the work we’ve done,”…
Chicago school authorities have fired six employees, banned four substitute teachers and denied 33 other adults from campuses over sexual misconduct investigations. A number of criminal charges stem from investigations that started last fall following a Chicago Tribune investigation into the district’s…
Chicago Public Schools officials have received 624 new allegations of sexual abuse in their new office handling such complaints, 133 of them making accusations against adults. That’s what a top CPS attorney told City Council members Wednesday afternoon at a…