300 CPS Students Treated To Free Viewing Of Black Panther
With the day off from school, 300 Chicago Public School students were treated to see Black Panther at a Chatham movie theater.
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With the day off from school, 300 Chicago Public School students were treated to see Black Panther at a Chatham movie theater.
Facing an intense baclkash from many in the Englewood community, Chicago Public Schools officials have backtracked on their plans to close four high schools in the neighborhood at the end of the school year, and will instead phase those schools out gradually while the district moves forward with plans for a new $85 million facility to replace them.
Chicago Public Schools have canceled classes on Friday, due to the snow.
CPS has not provided qualified foreign-language interpreters for the parents of those children, a new lawsuit claims.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS officials announced Sunday that the program will be expanded to include 14 more elementary schools.
Chicago Public Schools proposes building a new, $85 million high school in Englewood to replace four others it would close.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has promised to unveil plans to make sure every Chicago Public Schools student has the support they will need to meet new graduation requirements he announced last year.
A two-hour public meeting on the Chicago school board's plan to replace four high schools in Englewood with one new $85-million school degenerated at times into a shouting match.
Interim CPS Chief Executive Officer Janice Jackson said the new school would help Englewood thrive.
The Chicago Teachers Union delivered a letter to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's office at City Hall on Monday, offering advice for interim Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson, and calling for a halt to planned school closings.
Jackson replaces Forrest Claypool, who resigned last month amid ethics concerns.
According to the annual report from the Inspector General for the Chicago Board of Education, even some principals took part in lavish buying sprees.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool apologizes no fewer than four times for lying to ethics investigators and other missteps –- actions that have prompted some to call for his termination.
And CBS 2's Political Reporter Derrick Blakley reports that there may soon be calls for Claypool to resign.
Lindblom Math & Science Academy senior Jasmine Curtis drew cheers when she slammed Mayor Rahm Emanuel for, in her view, strangling neighborhood schools.
The stage is set for a showdown between the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union, over the district's plan to close several South Side schools.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS announced a plan to transform three neighborhood schools into magnet schools and open two new classical schools.
CPS announced their plan Friday saying Robeson, Harper, John Hope College Prep and TEAM Englewood high schools could close by June.
The Chicago Teachers Union is blasting city officials over what, it claims, are plans to close all four schools in Englewood.
And efforts to clean the school have failed.
Jewel-Osco presented Chance the Rapper's Social Works organization with a $1 million check to benefit CPS.
The Grammy-winning rapper didn't offer any hints when he teased the announcement on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon" last week.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that six Chicago public high schools will be added to those helping students participate in advanced placement and international baccalaureate programs.
Calls for Chicago Public Schools CEO Forrest Claypool to resign or be fired are growing louder, with some coming from city aldermen.
A CPS spokesman said sharing "do not hire" information with charter and contract schools requires the consent of each individual on the list
