To be a sharper, deeper, more careful, more creative, more flexible thinker requires diversity — inside classrooms and all across campuses.
Heidi Stevens: Banning DEI and race-based programs in schools chips away at the very mission of education
Category: Education
CPS skilled trades recruitment event sparks interest in career pathways for high school juniors, seniors
The event is a partnership with city agencies, City Colleges of Chicago, and labor and corporate partners to promote pathways other than traditional four-year colleges and universities.
House passes Indiana budget through 2027
The Indiana House passed the biennial budget, which received praise from Republicans and criticism from Democrats, on Thursday. The legislature is tasked with crafting a budget to cover state funding over the next two years. Lawmakers will determine how to spend $44 billion for schools, health insurance programs and infrastructure and health care insurance programs […]
ULTIMA students at Stagg High School serve up skills, smiles and a cup of joe
The Charlie Chargers Coffee Cart at Stagg High School in Palos Hills offers students with special needs hands-on work experience.
Markham’s Prairie-Hills Junior High community seeks reinstatement of fired mental health counselor
An attorney for fired Prairie-Hills Elementary District 144 mental health counselor Eric V. Harwell said he may file a lawsuit.
Indiana House passes ban on transgender women participating in women’s college sports
The Indiana House passed a bill Tuesday banning transgender women from women’s sports at the collegiate level days after the NCAA amended its transgender athlete policy to align with an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
Mayor Brandon Johnson escalates push for CPS to pick up pension payment, borrow more money
The pension obligation has been the subject of years of dispute between the city and school district over which body should be responsible for the payment.
Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money
The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s fight against “wokeness” and sowing confusion as schools scramble to comply.
Mayor Johnson names final Chicago school board member after weeks of delay
Johnson appointed Cydney Wallace, a mother of four who works for the Cook County court clerk’s office.
Waukegan schools have had 11 student expulsions this year; ‘We give them consequences depending on the entire situation’
The state’s expulsion law resulted in 11 Board of Education discussions and votes between the Aug. 27 and Feb. 11 board meetings in Waukegan, where disciplinary suggestions of Superinendent Theresa Plascencia were ratified.