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The Chicago Public Schools boycott, also known as Freedom Day, was a mass boycott and demonstration against the segregationist policies of the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) on October 22, 1963. [1] More than 200,000 students stayed out of school, and tens of thousands of Chicagoans joined in a protest that culminated in a march to the office of ...
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) and the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) released a joint letter on Thursday reaffirming that they are a "sanctuary" space for "all students, parents, employees, and ...
Since 2012, spending in the Chicago Public Schools has nearly doubled as proficiency in reading has dropped 57% and math declined 77% for third through eighth grades. Chicago taxpayers are paying ...
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 ...
Chicago Public Schools (CPS), officially classified as City of Chicago School District #299 for funding and districting reasons, [5] in Chicago, Illinois, is the fourth-largest [6] school district in the United States, after New York, Los Angeles, and Miami-Dade County.
In October 1963, tens of thousands of students and residents boycotted the CPS due to the segregationist policies of Superintendent of Chicago Public Schools Benjamin Willis, who was notorious for placing mobile units on playgrounds and parking lots to solve overcrowding in black schools. While city authorities made a promise to investigate the ...
Federal agents “showed up” at Hamline Elementary School in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood at 11:15 a.m. local time, according to Chicago Public Schools chief education officer ...
The Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) was a Chicago public school reform project from 1995 to 2001 that worked with half of Chicago's public schools and was funded by a $49.2 million, 2-to-1 matching challenge grant over five years from the Annenberg Foundation. The grant was contingent on being matched by $49.2 million in private donations and ...