Chicago Public School District 299
Recent News About Chicago Public School District 299
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Illinois Republican Party on tax dollars spent on undocumented: Johnson ‘has yet to lift a finger to help Chicago’s homeless Americans’
The Illinois Republican Party is raising concerns over Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's prioritization of creating programs to assist undocumented immigrants while seemingly neglecting the city's homeless population.
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Wirepoints: ‘Increasing taxes again on Chicagoans puts the city at risk of losing more residents and businesses’
A bi-partisan coalition of groups are vocally opposed to the 5% property tax increase imposed by the Chicago Public Schools board.
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Dabrowski on Wirepoints' CPS report: Chicago's future 'depends in part on the education Hispanic students are getting today'
Wirepoints is continuing to promote its report finding that Hispanic students are lagging in Chicago Public Schools.
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City of Chicago to Receive $6.8 Million from Mellon Foundation to Fund Creation of New Chicago Monuments
Transformative Grant to Support Chicago Monuments Project and Citywide Community-Generated Commemorative Initiatives and Installations
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Former Mayor Lightfoot says teaching public health course at Harvard 'gives me an opportunity to share my perceptions and experiences'
Former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfood has accepted a position as a Richard L. and Ronay A. Menschel Senior Leadership Fellow at Harvard University, where she will teach a course called “Health Policy and Leadership” at Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
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Wirepoints: ‘The ongoing education failures in Chicago deserve far more attention’
Wirepoints has released a report noting the struggles with Hispanic student achievement in Chicago Public Schools.
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Wirepoints on the nascent Chicago School Board: ‘A draft map released last week is gerrymandered by race’
As the creation of a Chicago School Board is underway the school board district the city has created has been questioned.
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Boulton on Chicago School Board transition: ‘We don’t even know the deadlines for candidates to file or the voting procedures’
Chicago GOP Chair Steve Boulton is criticizing the City of Chicago for not making a smooth transition to a Chicago School Board.
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Ida Crown alum Feigenholtz votes ‘yes’ on budget that lets scholarship program expire
Despite having attended a private school, Sen. Sara Feigenholtz (D-Chicago) voted for a budget that lets the Invest in Kids Tax Credit Scholarship Program expire.
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‘We were to be in a position of influence': University of Chicago Lab School alum Slaughter votes to slash funding for scholarship program
State Rep. Justin Slaughter (D-Chicago) has not shown support for extending the Invest In Kids Tax Credit Scholarship program.
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Residents, teachers criticize Chicago City Council's additional $51 million allocation to address migrant crisis
The Chicago City Council has approved allocating an additional $51 million from City funds to address the current migrant crisis.
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Lightfoot spokeswoman: 'The Lightfoot campaign email list included hundreds of thousands of email addresses, with new recipients subscribing daily'
Recently released records show that former Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot was told to stop electioneering almost a year before her campaign tried to recruit Chicago Public Schools students to aid in her re-election efforts.
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Pritzker's refusal to endorse Invest in Kids hurts Chicago families: ‘I have to pick up a second job because I'm not going to take my kids out of private education’
Gerardo Valdivia Sr.’s family are directly affected by the General Assembly and Governor’s Office failure to fund the Invest In Kids tax scholarship program.
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Richmond: ‘Taking away the scholarships of thousands of low-income students is not as easy as some hoped’
Greg Richmond, superintendent of schools for the Archdiocese of Chicago, said despite Democratic lawmakers keeping the Invest In Kids Scholarship program out of the state’s budget, the program is still being discussed between the Archdiocese and the lawmakers who may be able to keep it alive.
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Criminal investigator says child sexual abuse is '100 time worse' in public schools than the Catholic church
Tom Hampson, a licensed criminal investigator and founder of the Truth Alliance Foundation, recently appeared on the Chicago Morning Answer radio talk show to talk with host Dan Proft about the degree of child sexual abuse in public schools compared to the current Catholic church.
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Dan Proft says Gov Pritzker's new task force is something 'you normally see associated with Third World warlordocracies'
Illinois’ Gov. J.B. Pritzker has created a new task force of “peacekeepers” to patrol the city of Chicago in preparation for Memorial Day festivities.
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Community activist Ja'Mal Green on more funding for migrants: 'I’m tired of it'
On May 23, local Chicago activist Ja’Mal Green tweeted on the upcoming Chicago city council vote on additional funding for the influx of illegal immigrants coming to the Sanctuary City.
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Mayor Brandon Johnson Signs First Executive Orders
Mayor Brandon Johnson on may 15 signed his first executive orders as Mayor of Chicago.
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"The purpose of reparations is to acknowledge the harm committed;" Remedial CPS students get reading comprehensive lesson on "slavery reparations"
A Chicago Public Schools reading comprehension lesson seeks to teach remedial Hispanic readers about so-called "slavery reparations."
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Pastor of New Beginnings Church on current Chicago migrant crisis: 'These immigration policies are horrible'
Local pastor Corey Brooks recently shared his personal struggle with the growing immigrant crisis in Chicago.