iMentor helps high schoolers reach their higher ed goals with guidance
"I was blessed that I had mentors that stepped up in my life to help guide me."
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"I was blessed that I had mentors that stepped up in my life to help guide me."
The conversation started more than a decade ago, but it was legislation that got the ball rolling in 2021.
The conversation started more than a decade ago, but it was legislation that got the ball rolling in 2021.
CPS parents can now take a brief survey to give the district feedback on their child's school.
It asks about teacher and staff performance - as well as school safety.
The students will also get the option of a paid internship with Amazon between their freshman and sophomore years of college.
Vallas has also been vilified by the Chicago Teachers Union - which is backing his opponent, Brandon Johnson. The CTU's contract is up next year.
CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov sat down with mayoral finalist Paul Vallas for one last time before the election. Vallas indicated closing public schools – in their current form – may be on the table.
Chicago Board of Education meetings can last to five or six hours. Soaking up every minute is an eager 16-year-old named Emmanuel Ofosuhene.
A Chicago Public Schools teacher is facing multiple charges after a confrontation with police outside the home of Mayor Lori Lightfoot last week.
Garrett McLinn, 36, a teacher at Taft High School, is charged with two felony counts of stalking, and six misdemeanor counts including disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
CPS said Abdul Muhammad was removed after "an investigation that substantiated findings against" him.
CBS 2's Jermont Terry spent Wednesday trying to get answers.
The side door to Jones College Prep is broken and stays half open. So to secure things, school leaders decided to put a chain and padlock on the door. CBS 2's Jermont Terry reports.
Students and officers will play together, and each team will have one student coach and one officer coach.
As the wheelchair lift is moving, the bus aide walks over, points to the boy, and says: "He can't play. He going to sit right there and be tied up like a slave."
A bus attendant tried to restrain 9-year-old MaCaulay Frye, who has autism, in what the boy’s lawyers say might have involved tying his hands together. CBS 2's Suzanne Le Mignot reports.
The lawsuit claims the teacher mentally and physically abused the students with special needs in her Whistler Elementary School classroom.
The senator said the federal funding will go toward trauma-informed care and additional mental health personnel in public schools through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act passed by Congress last year.
It includes 40 teams of high schoolers some from CPS schools.
Today students from all over the world are headed here to Chicago for the Midwest Regional FIRST Illinois Robotics competition.
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin will announce more than $14 million in federal funding for local schools.
The money will help Chicago Public Schools and the State Board of Education pay for mental health personnel.
One Chicago Public Schools student spelled his way to the top of the city-wide spelling bee.
If you're curious, Thursday's winning word was "Saturnine." It means "gloomy."
