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Signaling a paradigm shift in a school system largely shaped by choice, the Chicago Board of Education passed a resolution Thursday to prioritize neighborhood schools in Chicago Public Schools ...
According to the U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, school violence is a serious problem. [1] [2] In 2007, the latest year for which comprehensive data were available, a nationwide survey, [3] conducted biennially by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and involving representative samples of U.S. high school students, found that 5.9% of students carried a weapon (e ...
With more than 570 homicides in 2024, police in Chicago reported fewer than 600 murders for the first time since 2019. Snelling noted the city’s progress but said there is still work to do.
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
2017 Aztec High School shooting: William Atchison, 21-year-old former male student sneaked into Aztec High School disguised as a student and hid in an unlocked washroom with a Glock 9mm handgun hidden in his bag. He retreated from the washroom after being spotted by a school custodian who chased him shouting "active shooter" and "lockdown".
Those students – and every student - should feel safe on our university campus," Manuel said in a letter to faculty, staff and students. Chicago police identified the victims as two men, ages 21 ...
CHICAGO — North suburban school districts, as well as Oakton College in the north suburbs, are communicating with students about potential immigration raids after President Donald Trump’s ...
Research suggest that certain gun control policies have an impact on rates of gun violence in schools. For example, Anderson and Sabia find that Child-Access-Prevention (CAP) laws decrease the rate of students bringing weapons to school (by about 18.5%) and the rate of students being threatened with weapons at school (by 19%). [26]