CPS Cancels Summer Friday Classes Because Of Heat
Summer classes at Chicago Public Schools buildings have been canceled Friday for students and teachers because of the heat, officials said.
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Summer classes at Chicago Public Schools buildings have been canceled Friday for students and teachers because of the heat, officials said.
The Chicago Public School System has not yet released its budget for the coming school year, but property taxpayers are already going to pay more.
As the heat ratchets up above 100 degrees Thursday, the Chicago Public Schools are canceling classes in 10 buildings that do not have working air conditioning.
More than 200 students from Harper High School, where gang conflicts were common last school year, have enrolled in summer jobs programs, including a dog obedience training program in Engglewood.
It's been a bit more than a year on the job for Chicago Public Schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard. Some critics have said it's been a bumpy, road with many obstacles ahead for Brizard - including a potential teachers' strike.
The Chicago Public Schools and 60 area churches are partnering up to try to keep kids safe this summer.
While much of the talk about Chicago schools revolves around a potential teachers strike, one education reform group kicked off the summer this weekend with a push for more charter schools.
A day after Chicago Public Schools' teachers overwhelmingly authorized a strike, CBS 2 wanted to know how much the average teacher earns. As CBS 2's Dana Kozlov found out, it depends on who you ask.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says the Chicago Teachers Union vote to authorize a strike is a "huge number," but he says he wants to focus on improving schools, and what an independent arbitrator might do to avoid a strike.
More than 90 percent of teachers in the Chicago Public Schools voted to authorize a strike this week, in a move that the Chicago Teachers Union believes will provide a leg up in negotiations starting next month.
Chicago teachers have voted to authorize a strike, setting the stage for intense contract negotiations to avoid a possible walkout in the fall.
The head of the Chicago Public Schools says one of his top priorities, besides working out a new contract with the Chicago Teachers Union, is closing the achievement gap among a number of schools.
A newly-formed coalition of parents, teachers and community groups have begun a door-to-door petition drive to get a referendum question on an elected Chicago school board on the November ballot citywide.
The city could soon know whether Chicago Public Schools teachers are going to authorize a strike, but the teachers are already crying foul.
CBS 2's Walter Jacobson says the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union should stop acting like children.
Chicago Public Schools teachers began voting today on whether to authorize a strike.
Tomorrow will be a big day in Chicago. The teachers in our public schools will vote tomorrow on whether to authorize a strike.
Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis met with more than 200 teachers and other union members this morning at Lane Tech High School, one day before the union takes a strike authorization vote.
Chicago Public Schools chief executive officer Jean-Claude Brizard says he wants teachers to have a raise, and is asking the Chicago Teachers Union to hold off on its strike authorization vote set for this coming Wednesday.
The Chicago Public Schools have struck a labor deal with their second largest union, but not the one that represents teachers.
A woman who works for the Chicago School Board is suing her employer and her supervisor claiming she was regularly sexually harassed at work for more than a year.
The Chicago Teachers Union says it will conduct a strike authorization vote next week.
Some Chicago aldermen want the Chicago Public Schools to consider mandating uniforms for students, as a way to eliminate the problem of teenage boys who wear their pants hanging low.
A new poll shows Mayor Rahm Emanuel getting high marks from voters during his first year in office, but little public support for an early vote on a possible Chicago teachers' strike.
About 5,000 Chicago Public Schools teachers rallied downtown Wednesday afternoon, before shutting down a stretch of Michigan Avenue to take their contract demands directly to CPS headquarters in the Loop.
