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Sarah Karp

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4 years

TV news need to stop saying George Floyd “died in police custody.” As journalists, we need to say what really happened... he did not have a heart attack or a stroke. Floyd was KILLED in police custody.

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3 years

Chicago Public Schools just announced that all staff will be required to be vaccinated.

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A Park Manor Elementary School parent says she can not understand how CPS can say it is wrong to test or vaccinate students at the school when the dentist comes and the eye doctor comes.

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2 years

As of today, 2,308 Chicago Public School staff are in quarantine and 10,898 students. CPS has yet to respond my questions about where staff are quarantining.

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2 years

From Capital Fax followed up with the governor’s office about what Pritzker was offering CPS and he was told the state had offered SHIELD tests, vaccination clinics and masks for the past several weeks. The city has not yet taken the state up on those offers.

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Sarah Karp

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3 years

MASS EXODUS AT CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS... Now I have confirmed that CPS CEO Janice Jackson is leaving Chicago Public Schools. Also, Chief Education Officer LaTanya McDade previously announced she is leaving. Also, chief operating officer Arnie Riveria is going...

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1 year

University of Chicago, one of the hardest colleges in the country to get into, has to remind its students to look both ways when crossing the street?

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2 years

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot gave press 20 minutes to get to her press conference so alas because we, at WBEZ, do not live downtown and do not own helicopters... we won't be able to make it there. We will be listening like everyone else.

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2 years

Chicago Public Schools just announced Jones College Prep principal removed pending results of an investigation into student dressed as a German soldier for Halloween. The student displayed his costume doing a march and a salute that was reminiscent of a Nazi soldier.

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Sarah Karp

@SSKedreporter

4 years

Chicago’s biggest high school votes to remove police officers from school building...

Kelly Garcia

@_KellyGarcia__

4 years

BREAKING: Lane Tech HS votes to remove their School Resource Officers. Motion to keep the SROs fails 9-3.

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Sarah Karp

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5 years

Lightfoot and Preckwrinkle both support a fully elected school board. They both said they would not close schools. And maybe the election of either one... means the end, or at least a major pause, in the charter school movement in Chicago.

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Sarah Karp

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2 years

The hardest thing about being a long time education reporter covering a big city where most students come from low income families is not to accept for these students what education experts say is unacceptable, what wealthier parents would not accept.

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1 year

Yes. Teens going to the beach or downtown on a beautiful night is not a riot and should not be a problem. These should be safe places. Period.

Lynda Lopez

@Lyndab08

1 year

This tweet relevant again. Where can teens in Chicago hang on a nice day? Where’s the youth infrastructure? Why are people so afraid of young people, particularly Black and Brown teens hanging. Hope our next mayoral administration talks about this.

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2 years

CTU VP Stacy Davis Gates comes out swinging: "This mayor is unfit to lead this city and she is on a one woman kamikaze mission to take down our schools. She leverages Black and Brown children. This agreement is the only modicum of safety. Thank your teachers."

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Sarah Karp

@SSKedreporter

4 years

Now I have it confirmed... CPS all remote.... better late than never...

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3 years

Only 19 percent of students eligible for in person learning in Chicago Public Schools showed up (on average) during the first week it was offered. That is far worse than the 30% CPS was expecting.

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3 years

Lewis revitalized the Chicago Teachers Union and helped inspire unions and teachers across the country to fight for quality public schools.

Karen Lewis, Chicago Union Leader Who Set Off A Wave Of Teacher Activism, Dies

Lewis revitalized the Chicago Teachers Union and helped inspire unions and teachers across the country to fight for quality public schools.

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Sarah Karp

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1 year

Former CTU Pres Jesse Sharkey and current VP Jackson Potter both said Brandon Johnson’s election is the product of at least 2 decades of work building coalitions and making the fight for justice in education also a fight for justice around housing, health care, decriminalization

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3 years

Chicago Public Schools will mandate masks be worn by staff and students, regardless of vaccination status. They can take them off outside, to eat or drink and playing some sports activities.

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3 years

Chicago Teachers Union source says that CPS did not show up at negotiations today. CPS said it would only show up if CTU made "monumental" concessions. So...

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2 years

Today all the students — freshman to seniors — at Juarez and Al Raby learned they are getting a free ride to college, plus their PARENTS get scholarships. “I get to go school,” one mom told me. “Let’s dream big!!

College scholarships will be awarded to all students at five Chicago public high schools

Hope Chicago is raising $1 billion over 10 years to provide scholarships for college or work programs to 24,000 students and 6,000 parents.

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Sarah Karp

@SSKedreporter

4 years

No meal distribution at Chicago Public Schools today. CPS suspended due to the “evolving” situation. What is the concern? That people will loot schools? That buses are not running so people can’t get to work? Seems like this may be a day that children need to eat.

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Sarah Karp

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3 years

You what is bull crap... the Mayor's office will not allow an ed beat reporter into this press conference. @MaryAnnAhernNBC is great and one of the journalists who I respect most... but boy, would I like to ask the mayor and Jackson some questions in real time.

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Sarah Karp

@SSKedreporter

5 years

In a stunning/unheard of turn of events, Chicago Public Schools is giving up its plans to convert NTA into a high school. Comes after a dramatic decision by a judge granting a preliminary injunction while a lawsuit challenging the plan moves forward.

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Sarah Karp

@SSKedreporter

2 years

The standard for education reporters covering Black and Latino low-income students should be what is ideal, not what is barely adequate given reality of underfunded schools. Not to do so is revealing a deep bias that we don’t really believe these students deserve a real chance.

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Sarah Karp

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5 years

Chicago Public School teachers and staff 94 percent voted yes to authorize a strike

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2 years

Next step: Ask CPS and the city why?

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2 years

Q: is this to protect teenagers who were downtown or to protect the tourists and people from them? If really thinking about these young people, is this the move we would make? Instead of closing off a perceived safe space, might we think about how do we create more safe spaces?

Gregory Royal Pratt

@royalpratt

2 years

NEWS: Mayor Lori Lightfoot is banning unaccompanied minors in Millennium Park after 6pm from Thursday through Sunday after a teenager was shot and killed and large crowds of teens have repeatedly created chaos downtown.

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1 year

As an ed reporter in Chicago waking up today with the same intention as always, no matter who is mayor: Hold politicians accountable, make sure they remember their promises and always keep in mind the child who walks into a classroom with nothing but dreams and potential.

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2 years

Last year as a cps parent after 20 years… can’t believe my baby boy is now a senior. Photo courtesy of my husband as I was out reporting…

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3 years

A Chicago Public School source says that the mayor's remarks launching into CTU leadership calling them "failed" and causing chaos takes the progress made at the bargaining table "a step back."

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3 years

We now have ample evidence that the police lie, especially when describing police shootings... so we need to do more than just attribute official versions of events to police... we need to say something like: said the police, who have historically lied about these events.

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3 years

IF this proposed deal between the Chicago Public Schools and the teachers union goes through, it does not signal that I can take a break. There are so many follow-ups and questions. I've got a list of FOIA's to submit already.

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3 years

How can you say in person learning is okay, restaurants are okay to eat in... but one more reporter in a press conference is a greater risk?

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3 years

Elected School Board bill is passed out of the senate 36- 15 -2

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2 years

Breaking: Chicago Teachers Union gets okay from delegates to go public with what they are calling a full, comprehensive safety agreement that they want the mayor and school district to agree to.

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2 years

Why would @PedroCPSCEO go on CNN to say this? Why not also talk to local reporters who are trying to report on this all day, every day?

A.D. Quig

@ad_quig

2 years

@craigrwall In an interview with CNN just now, @PedroCPSCEO said he is "cautiously optimistic... Both sides want to make a deal. I'm hoping we have news for parents very soon... hopefully within a couple of hours at the very latest." Says the two sides have agreed on school-based metrics.

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2 years

Chicago Board Member Elizabeth Todd-Breland says she will not vote for the item that would have CPS give the city $175 mill for the municipal pension fund. "I am not comfortable with the city balancing its budget on the CPS budget. I do not think we should do this now."

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Sarah Karp

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3 years

Word is the situation on Friday where Mayor Lori Lightfoot launched into the union leadership calling them "failed" and "causing chaos" and then a CPS source saying the mayor was not helping the situation... left the negotiating team paralyzed.

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3 years

Lots of questions this morning about why Chicago Public Schools has not registered as an employer so that clinicians, including school nurses, can get vaccinated immediately.

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2 years

Many parents from Taft/Lane HS reporting that their children spent time sitting in crowded auditoriums bc no teacher/no sub. But, according to CPS: Taft HS had 82% of their teachers report to their building today; Lane Technical had 92% teacher attendance.

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2 years

Jesse Jackson just showed up to the Chicago Teacher Union press conference

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3 years

CTU has retained Dr. Vin Gupta, a national expert, to serve as medical expert in their case against CPS.

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5 years

Being at this awards banquet for high school journalists... all I can think about Is that every hs in Chicago should have a journalism program... teaches critical thinking, statistics, how to challenge authority and is so empowering... how can we make this happen?

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3 years

Not to mention that the idea that the city can not release video because he is a minor lacks common sense. The laws not to disclose names of minors are to protect them; once killed by police... well, I think we have already failed to protect

Patrick Smith

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3 years

Experts Say Lightfoot Can Release Police Shooting Video, Not Just Call For Its Release my story:

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Sarah Karp

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2 years

It is odd that principals are telling parents that school is cancelled on Monday (they would not say that unless CPS told them that) while negotiations are still ongoing.

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5 years

Let me just note it was @Wbez and @WBEZeducation the tweeted that there was a deal, but I DID NOT. For some reason the city told someone in the newsroom, there was a deal. For some reason, that person did not check with me. I’m sorry for the confusion

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4 years

As of right now, Chicago Public Schools is NOT reconsidering its decision to keep schools open, even as all schools across Ohio are being shut down for three weeks and many other schools across the country.

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2 years

6 am phone call from Chicago Public Schools informing that schools will be open…

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4 years

The big news on the Chicago Board of Education agenda is a resolution directing school district officials to come up with an alternative to the SRO program by March. This would allow the school district to phase out SROs by next year.

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5 years

CTU: the school district has agreed to add positions for people to work with homeless students.

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3 years

CTU VP Stacy Davis Gates reacts to a question about whether the union is still pushing on things like rent abatement and services for homeless people. She asks "who does that offend? the housed?"

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Sarah Karp

@SSKedreporter

2 years

Read this

CPS COVID-19 Dashboard

@CPSCovid

2 years

🧵Today I’ll share the story of how @ChiPubSchools has been displaying different sets of COVID data to intentionally deceive parents & the public about COVID in schools. I’ll share evidence about how and (shockingly) WHEN they started fudging the numbers. Strap in. 1/

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3 years

Only about 24% of the Chicago Public School students who could have opted into in-person learning are actually going into schools for classes... and of those, many are not coming in regularly, according to just released data.

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@SSKedreporter

3 years

What does it mean “with the caveat that this story is from WBEZ!!!”

Carlos Ramirez-Rosa 🇵🇸

@CDRosa

3 years

"With the caveat that this story is from @WBEZ ..." ??? Smdh.

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Sarah Karp

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2 years

Less Than Half of Chicago Public Schools Students Attended Class Wednesday During Snowstorm

Less Than Half of Chicago Public Schools Students Attended Class

According to Chicago Public Schools data, 49.9% of Pre-K through12th grade students in district-operated schools were accounted for on Wednesday.

news.wttw.com

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Sarah Karp

@SSKedreporter

2 years

This is a very telling email I just from Chicago Public Schools communications: Just to be clear, the vote tonight is for a strike -- NOT for remote learning.

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Sarah Karp

@SSKedreporter

3 years

Of course I am salty being scooped... but the way @ChiPubSchools and @chicagosmayor releases information makes me feel like they think announcements are a game or something to be used to curry favor, rather than information that affects real people's lives...

Nader Issa

@NaderDIssa

3 years

Breaking: Chicago Public Schools officials are planning to resume in-person classes for elementary school students Feb. 1, sources tell the @Suntimes . The is the city's most concrete move yet to reopen schools for the first time during the pandemic.

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2 years

Arwady says a that it is ideal to have a random sample of 10% of students. That is exactly what I have heard @SharkeyCTU1 say. That is why the union says testing only those who opt in is not good because it is not random.

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5 years

CTU: Counselors will no longer be forced to spend their time substituting or picking up other tasks... per new contract language. CTU bargaining team member says still working to lower caseloads for counselors...

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3 years

Curie student tells Board of Education she does not believe district is capable of spending the $1.8 billion it is getting in federal stimulus money. "You keep spending money on police contracts. We don't need police in our schools. We have been oppressed all our lives."

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@SSKedreporter

2 years

The Chicago Teachers Union is filing an unfair labor labor practice charge against the school district to try to force them to bargain over lifting the mask mandate. This comes as the school district announced just hours ago that masks will no longer b required as of next Monday

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@SSKedreporter

4 years

When I left this protest in front of Chicago public school headquarters, the young people were learning how to Vogue. They were joyful but serious about what they were there to do. CPD confirms that tonight some of the protesters were arrested.

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3 years

Maybe I should apologize for interrupting the mayor today bc she deserves respect. What bothered me about her answer to my Q abt students whose buses were cancelled (the weekend b4 skl started) was she made it seem like an isolated issue and everything was being taken care of...

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4 years

Students occupying the front of Chicago Public School headquarters demanding police out of cpd

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@SSKedreporter

3 years

Mayor Lori Lightfoot says the CEO search is confidential and we will know when we know. Wonder if Lightfoot knows that most school district leaders searches in the finalist phase are not confidential. A lot of times journalists write in-depth profiles of Candidates.

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Sarah Karp

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5 years

So grateful to have spent the long days and nights with my colleagues @yanazure @NaderDIssa @HannahMLeone Covering a teachers strike is not easy and you guys did a great job. Also, just so you know, the education beat is the BEST.

Chicago Teachers Union

@CTULocal1

5 years

Props to local education reporters @SSKedreporter @Yanazure @HannahMLeone and @NaderDIssa . This isn't an easy beat or an easy school district, and we're not an easy union, but you all put in serious work and did your thing. Salute.

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4 years

Now @Suntimes reporting multiple sources saying CPS is going all remote in Sept. For all the times @ChiPubSchools asks reporters not report something so they can communicate to parents first, it is crazy the way we are getting this news is thru "inside sources" on twitter.

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@SSKedreporter

3 years

This are the people on the Parent Collective call

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@SSKedreporter

2 years

Nearly 1 out of every 4 guns recovered from city homicides from companies in which Ken Griffin’ Citadel held shares. So Griffin is making $ off the crime his candidate for governor Rich Irvin says he will combat. @davemckinney thank you for this story!

Chicago billionaire Ken Griffin’s firms have $86 million in companies making guns and ammunition

The founder of Citadel, the hedge fund and financial services behemoth, has hit Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker on rising crime. Griffin’s critics call these investments and holdings “hypocritical.”

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@SSKedreporter

4 years

Students call for police to be removed from schools. State Rep Lashawn Ford and Ald. Rod Sawyer join them

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2 years

Recent graduate of Washington HS says the two teachers being fired are some of the best teachers she has had. She is going to Northwestern on a full ride. "IF the board of ed cares about youth, they will not fire teachers who have done nothing but care for us."

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@SSKedreporter

3 years

Teachers must be vaccinated before L.A. schools can reopen, Beutner says

L.A. schools Supt. Austin Beutner says reopening K-12 campuses will require the vaccination of teachers and staff. But UTLA says virus case rates also must drop.

www.latimes.com

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@SSKedreporter

4 years

Board member Todd-Breland moves to amend the school district's calendar so CPS will celebrate Indigenous People's Day and not Columbus Day. Sotelo-No; Truss-No; but the rest of board votes yes.

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@SSKedreporter

2 years

Breaking: if the union votes to go remote today, Classes will be canceled tomorrow. Then parents will get information on a path forward. This indicates he will not let remote take place.

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5 years

CTU: won 10 to 1 ratio for preschool classes. State law requires this... " Also, preschool students will be allowed to nap.

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10 months

Chi Mayor Brandon Johnson says he anticipates the creation of a Special Education Advisory Committee under his new Board of Ed to help ensure input from local leaders and experts as they look for new leadership and strengthen services for students w/ disabilities.

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3 years

Maybe it is not school districts that are similar to each other but parents are similar to each other, esp. in communities with a lot of Covid death and sickness. Maybe parents don’t trust these school systems to keep their children safe bc experience has taught them not to.

Cassie Walker Burke

@cassiechicago

3 years

Important to note here that we're seeing this happen in other districts. There's flux between in-person and remote learning, and fewer families initially report to in-person learning than signed up. NYC, for example, projected 49% and got about 25%.

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4 years

Any family who needs food today can call 773-553-KIDS !!!

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4 years

Just talked to Ald. Roderick Sawyer who said he realized that through an ordinance the city council could force the police to cancel is contract with Chicago Public Schools.

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3 years

A mother whose son is in special education says HER CHILD HAS NO TEACHER IN THE CLASSROOM... for three weeks!!! Her teacher has been locked out for refusing to work in the classroom though most of the students are remote.

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@SSKedreporter

3 years

Chicago Public Schools is asking its board to approve an intergovernmental agreement with the police department allowing it to spend up to $11,062,446 to have police stationed in schools.

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3 years

About 10% of bus drivers quit last week, CPS told families they had no ride for the first day of school. It’s offering cash instead.

Faced With A Bus Driver Shortage, CPS Offers Cash To Families To Get Their Kids To School

After about 10% of bus drivers quit last week, CPS told families they had no ride for them on the first day of school on Monday.

www.wbez.org

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@SSKedreporter

3 years

When Chicago Public Schools opens its school doors for in-person classes this winter, it is expecting only about 37% of students to walk in and they will be disproportionately white.

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@SSKedreporter

4 years

Breaking: The chief of staff for the head of Chicago Public Schools has been indicted for lying to the FBI. According to the indictment, he provided non-public information about a custodial contract to an individual and then when asked about it, he denied it.

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3 years

Just got an email about parents having their children stay at home on Monday as part of a sick out. They are frustrated that their children are being used as pawns. And they are upset with CPS’ reopening plans

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3 years

On another note: Chicago Public Schools still has not released information on how many students are actually showing up for in person learning. School district officials say it is complicated by the fact that students are marked as attending in person or remote. (1/2)

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2 years

CPS’ board almost never goes against a recommendation by the school district. In this case, over the firing of two activist teachers, it did.

Outspoken teachers spared firing in rare move by Chicago Public Schools’ board

CPS’ board almost never goes against a recommendation by the school district. In this case, over the firing of two activist teachers, it did.

www.wbez.org

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CPS CEO Janice Jackson says the school district will be sharing student attendance data this "evening" and when she says evening... I fear she means when most people sitting down with their families and trying to find a movie on Netflix...

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4 years

New guidelines put out by Chicago Public Schools say the school district will be fully remote if a 7-day rolling average of 400 new cases. Current daily average? 246

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4 years

CTU is calling for Governor Pritzker and ISBE to cancel the state-mandated, standardized test this year. The testing window for the test is March 11 thru April 24. They say time should not be wasted on testing and teaching to the test after a mass school shutdown

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2 years

CORE was re-elected with 56% of the vote, followed by the Members First slate with 27% and the Respect Educate Advocate Lead slate with 17%.

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3 years

So so sad this morning

Chicago Teachers Union

@CTULocal1

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Jackson says CPS can provide information on the demographic information of the preschool and special education students who are in person. This is great!!! Can't wait to have it in my inbox!!!

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2 years

Cps ceo Pedro Martinez says there is a significant rise in cases among students and staff. Also, more than 13000 in quarantine.

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@SSKedreporter

3 years

CTU says the city's COVID-19 stats have hit two of three metrics for complete re-shutdown of schools. Two of the three are based on how fast cases are increasing. The third is a positivity rate of above 10%. Current rate is 5.2%.

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6 years

In Chicago Board of Education headquarters where about 100plus students are holding a sit in because being kept from going into basement board room where cps board members will likely vote to close their schools...

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPS CEO Janice Jackson won't lock teachers out of their Google classrooms. They are declaring a 48 hour cooling off period after progress at the negotiating table.

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Sarah Karp

@SSKedreporter

3 years

Also, she emphasized that it is not CPS' fault... yet CPS is responsible, even if they hire third parties to do the work.

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