Shifting policies such as school choice give parents more school options than they had a few decades before. iStock/Getty Images Plus
by Bailey A. Brown, Spelman...
Linda McMahon, who led the pro-Trump group America First Action and chairs the America First Policy Institute, a Trump-aligned think tank, is the President-Elect's...
Chicago Public Schools recently announced plans for full remote learning for Fall 2020, leaving many teachers and families with mixed feelings of relief and...
The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) issued the following statement in response to the Senate confirmation of billionaire public education novice Betsy DeVos as U.S....
The nation's first charter school strike could happen here in Chicago as early as Oct. 19.
The United Educators of UNO (UEU), which represents teachers...
*Symone Greene, a 22-year-old woman who was hired to fill in for the planned absence of an English teacher at a D. C. Charter school is in a whole lot of trouble today. She has been charged with allegedly having sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old student in the classroom. The student admits to flirting with […]
*The focus has been intense on the wildly disproportionate number of black students who are suspended or expelled from America’s public schools. But what has flown quietly under the radar scope is the even more wildly disproportionate number of black students who are arrested on high school and even elementary school campuses for alleged behavior […]
Amid single-digit temperatures, public school supporters camped out overnight outside Chicago Public Schools headquarters to protest the district's expansion of charter schools months after...
Chicago Public Schools officials say they plan to get tough with privately run charter schools that are failing academically this year and could shut...