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Chicago Public Schools officials are asking serious questions of Chicago Virtual Charter School, following a CBS 2 investigation of mass turnover, dysfunction, and questionable finances.
A taxpayer funded Chicago school already under close watch by the district is struggling to retain teachers, and students are starting to jump ship, too.
Missing curriculum and missing textbooks are just some of the problems uncovered at Chicago Virtual Charter School.
Chicago Public Schools employees are required to live within city limits, with a few exceptions. It's been the rule for a long time, yet dozens of workers break it, and get fired because of it every year.
A 17-year-old was fatally shot while riding as a passenger in a vehicle in the Irving Park area on Monday night.
A mother is demanding answers, after she said her 11-year-old boy tried to commit suicide because of repeated bullying by both students and teachers.
Parents of George Washington Elementary School students reported bathroom walls separating from the floor, leaky ceilings, HVAC issues, mold and poor air quality.
"I point the finger at CPS because school is safe haven for kids and kids are supposed to be protected no matter what."
Jomaury Champ says he no longer feels safe at school, traumatized after a beating at the start of the day last September.
Dnigma Howard, 16, appeared in juvenile court Wednesday morning.
With 10 signs welcoming you, it's hard to miss Sullivan House High School on the South Side, but apparently miss school is what almost all of the students do.
Teachers at the four Chicago International Charter Schools are on strike.
Cell phone video shows police standing over 16-year-old Dnigma Howard Tuesday after a confrontation with a school staff member.
Chicago Public Schools and hundreds of other Chicago area schools cancelled classes on Wednesday due to the cold, but that didn't stop the city from telling crossing guards to report for duty in record cold temperatures.
Chicago Public Schools canceled classes and after-school activities for Thursday, Jan. 31 due to extreme temperatures.
Chicago Public schools has cancels classes for Wednesday due to extreme cold, according to a release from CPS.
With the countdown on to perhaps Chicago's coldest temperatures in decades Mayor Rahm Emanuel said preparations have been under way for days.
Simply put, the school, they insist, is falling apart. And pleas to the Chicago Board of Education, they said, are not adequately answered.
Brown said she used to see Safe Passage workers in the area in the past, but did not see any on the day she was attacked.
Critics point out Chico's law firm during those years became the biggest lobbyist at City Hall growing from 18 clients to almost 200.
A sensitive email from a North Side principal to parents addressing a recess monitor's sex abuse allegations has accidentally landed in the email inboxes of young students at the school where an after-school worker allegedly touched a young girl.
Since the program launched in 2015, more than 6,000 students have been named STAR Scholars.
The inspector general for the Chicago Public Schools is taking the district to task in a 50-page report filled with hundreds of allegations of misconduct, waste, and fraud.
Austan Goolsbee is a professor at the University of Chicago. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced his appointment to the school board Friday. Goolsbee says the Chicago school system is one of the city's "crown jewels."
