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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responds to a question during an interview, Aug. 15, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)

Chicago mayor names new school board after entire panel resigns amid a fight over district control

By Sophia Tareen - Associated Press

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson responds to a question during an interview, Aug. 15, 2024, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, file)

Chicago mayor names new school board after entire panel resigns amid a fight over district control

By Sophia Tareen - Associated Press

Sailboats practice in front of the downtown Chicago skyline during practice for an America's Cup World Series sailing event, June 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato) ** FILE **

Chicago schools to offer condoms to fifth graders: ‘Society has changed’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

State orders Chicago to fix special education in detention

By KELLY GARCIA of Injustice Watch - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, March 21, 2021 file photo a vial and syringes of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, at the Guru Nanak Gurdwara Sikh temple, on the day the first Vaisakhi Vaccine Clinic is launched, in Luton, England. Results from a U.S. trial of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine may have used &quot;outdated information,&quot; U.S. federal health officials said early Tuesday March 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, File)

The Latest: California prisons to resume in-person visits

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Chicago sees ‘worrying’ uptick in COVID-19 cases

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

Chicago Teachers Union: City has stopped negotiating

By DON BABWIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 11, 2021 file photo, teachers Adrienne Thomas, left, and Irene Barrera, right set up their computers and materials for their virtual classes outside of Suder Montessori Magnet Elementary School in solidarity with pre-K educators forced back into the building in Chicago. The plan to reopen Chicago schools remains in limbo as last-minute negotiations over COVID-19 safety measures with the teachers’ union stretch into Sunday, Jan. 31 and amplify the possibility of a strike. (Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

Chicago schools extend talks with union over in-person class

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

Chicago teachers begin vote to defy order to return to class

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

Meghan Hayes, who teaches at John Hay Community Academy, teaches her class outside Chicago Public Schools Board President Miguel del Valle's home, Wednesday morning, Jan. 13, 2021, in Chicago. Educators who were teaching remotely joined some teachers who were locked out of their remote teaching accounts because of their refusal to teach in-person due to COVID-19 safety concerns. (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Chicago teachers punished as classroom no-shows protest

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

Banners in support of the elementary school teachers hang outside Brentano Elementary School as teachers instruct virtual classes during a protest against returning to in-person teaching outside of Brentano Elementary School in Chicago, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. (Anthony Vazquez/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Chicago push to reopen city schools becomes more contentious

By SOPHIA TAREEN - Associated Press

CPS to bring pre-K and special-needs children back to school

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Chicago schools cut funding for police by more than half

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Chicago Public Schools CEO Dr. Janice Jackson, right, speaks as Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, second from left, listens during a press conference at the CPS headquarters announcing a preliminary reopening framework for public schools, Friday, July 17, 2020, in Chicago. (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP) **FILE**

Chicago plan would have kids in classrooms 2 days per week

By KATHLEEN FOODY - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 27, 2020, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room in Washington. The Chicago Teachers Union on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, announced it is suing U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and the city's public school district, saying its policies interfere with the education of students with special needs during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Teachers union sues DeVos, school district over special ed

By DON BABWIN - Associated Press

Fired high school administrators sue CPS for defamation

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In this photo taken Dec. 6, 2017, Chicago Public Schools Inspector General Nicholas Schuler attends a CPS Board meeting in Chicago. Schuler is stepping down after the school board hired a law firm to investigate complaints that he berated employees and created a toxic workplace, city officials said Monday, Feb. 3, 2020. (James Foster/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Chicago schools inspector general admits to being tough boss

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Vague misconduct allegations anger Chicago school parents

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Chicago schools inspector general steps down amid complaints

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Chicago high school hoops team’s season suspended amid probe

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