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Chicago Public Schools to get millions in Federal funds back after suing Trump Admin

Chicago Public Schools will receive millions of dollars in federal funding that the Trump administration rescinded last year after accusing the district of violating civil rights law through...

Hope Chicago announces scholarship to 800+ South and West Side students

As its first Scholars graduate debt-free and enter the workforce, Hope Chicago welcomes its next class, building a growing continuum of educational and economic...

Hope Chicago announces scholarship to 800+ South and West Side families

As its first Scholars graduate debt-free and enter the workforce, Hope Chicago welcomes its next class, building a growing continuum of educational and economic...

Governor Pritzker urged to opt into program for $2 billion for Illinois students

New Statewide Polling Shows Nearly 7 in 10 Illinoisans Support Opting In; Two-Thirds of Dollars Would Go to Public School Students A group of students,...

Kennedy–King College and the Black Midwifery Collective announce the new Midwife program at KKC

Kennedy–King College (KKC) and the Black Midwifery Collective (BMC) are proud to announce a new program, the Licensed Certified Professional Midwifery at KKC. The new associate degree program...

Chicago Teachers Union to hold Back-2-School Summer Jam today, Aug. 15

Community celebration brings food, entertainment, vaccinations and dozens of resource partners to CTU Center ahead of the first day of school Today, before CPS students...

CHA residents receive dorm-room essentials and laptops at Take Flight College Send Off

66 different colleges were represented at Springboard to Success-hosted trunk party, including Texas A&M, Louisiana State, American, Wisconsin and Illinois Two hundred fifteen Chicago Housing...

Children’s Defense Fund: Head Start overhaul will threaten well-being of millions of children

The national youth advocacy organization warns that scaling back the 61-year-old program will harm low-income children and families nationwide. The national youth advocacy organization, Children’s...

Thousands gather in Chicago for first-ever National Childcare Convention to organize fight for universal childcare

Community Change Action's three-day convention kicked off a nationwide campaign with providers and parents from 39 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico, to make universal...

Robert Hill: Clarence Thomas is no Thurgood Marshall

by Robert Hill In the month of July, nearly 120 years ago, Thurgood Marshall was born. He went on to become the first African American...