Protest planned outside Google's Chicago office over AI in schools
Parents, students and teachers plan to protest outside Google's Chicago office over the company's restriction of Google search in schools and embedded generative AI.
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Parents, students and teachers plan to protest outside Google's Chicago office over the company's restriction of Google search in schools and embedded generative AI.
Chicago Board of Education member Jessica Biggs on Tuesday declared victory in the race to become the first school board president in the city's history.
As Chicago prepares to elect its school board president for the first time, each of the three candidates have controversies voters are seeking for them to explain.
Chicago is about to elect the president of the school board for the first time ever. We asked all three candidates how they would complete their most important task: balancing the Chicago Public Schools budget.
If you live in Chicago, you'll find a race on your ballot for the 2026 election you've never seen before: school board president. You will be choosing between Jessica Biggs, HIlario Dominguez and Victor Henderson.
The Illinois Lottery announced it's sold $3.87 billion worth of lottery tickets in 2026, and generated more than $800 million in funding for public schools.
Alpha Schools says its AI-based instruction and focus on developing "life skills" set students up for success. Some experts say it's too good to be true.
They're the first incarcerated women to earn degrees from a Top 10 university through the program.
Technology has long changed the way students learn, and now, AI is ushering in the next era. Jarred Hill looks at how students and educators are adapting to artificial intelligence.
A school district in Northwest Indiana said it will eliminate all school bus transportation and cut sports and clubs for grades K-8 to address a deficit caused by decreased funding from major property tax cuts.
A Wisconsin appeals court reversed a lower court ruling that had declared Act 10 unconstitutional, keeping the 2011 law limiting public workers' collective bargaining rights in place as unions prepare to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
A local organization is working to support Black mothers and children, and its work dates back decades.
Could banning cell phones make Illinois classrooms better places to learn? State lawmakers are betting on it, sending a bill to Gov. JB Pritzker's desk to do exactly that.
The Canvas outage has stretched into a second day at some schools, leaving students and teachers in the Chicago and Illinois university systems scrambling amid the end of the spring semester.
A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline due to a cyberattack.
A nationwide Canvas outage has been reported, and is impacting schools in the Chicago area, including Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, UIC and the University of Illinois.
A new trade school in Calumet Park, which is a non-profit school with scholarship programs, is offering a new segment of students a pipeline to lucrative careers.
An audit confirmed the former Des Moines superintendent awarded district business to a firm he worked for, prompting new disclosure rules.
A group of Chicago Public Schools parents are taking their fight against the district's May Day civil action plan to the Board of Education.
The superintendent of Oswego School District 308 has sent a follow up letter to parents after the district sent an offer of remedial summer help to all minority students.
Mayor Brandon Johnson and the Chicago Public Library announced a new partnership that automatically registers more than 315,000 Chicago Public School students for the city's libraries.
An appellate court has ruled that Iowa can fully enforce a law restricting instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in schools up to sixth grade.
Educators and union leaders this week remembered a trailblazer for collective bargaining rights in Illinois.
Would you send your child to a private school with no teachers and learning driven by AI? And would you pay to do so?
Parents, teachers and students at the Chicago High School for the Arts pushed back against proposed changes Tuesday.
