Fight over Dyett High reaches tense new stage
CPS has announced a plan for Dyett, but not the one fought for by the hunger striking community members.
South Chicago community faces down prep school board over firings
"Telling teachers that they might lose their health insurance if they unionize is not living honestly."
Despite parent protest, Simeon closes electricity-training class
On a near perfect summer evening here, July 31, about 75 parents along with a number of students filled the Simeon Career and Technical Education auditorium.
Camden students and community force honest discussion on education
Hundreds of students spontaneously, and without permission, left their schools at high noon and marched peacefully to the Camden School District headquarters where they met in protest.
Chicago school boycott demands elected school board
Hundreds of students, parents and community activists joined a rally and march Aug. 28 supporting a one-day Chicago school boycott to protest the destruction of public education.
Shocking new cuts will gut Chicago schools
After closing 50 schools, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools are cutting elementary and high school budgets tens of millions of dollars.
Chicago protests to stop 54 school closings heat up
"We are not going without a fight!" declared nine-year-old Asean Johnson, a third grader at Marcus Garvey Elementary School. "We shall not be moved today!"
Bus tour solicits New Yorkers' priorities for schools
NEW YORK - After more than a decade of Mayor Michael Bloomberg's corporate restructuring of public education, a coalition of community groups hit the streets to ask New Yorkers, especially parents, what their priorities really were.
19 arrested in attempt to stop school closings
The mood was boisterous and upbeat as some 2,000 demonstrators massed outside Philadelphia School District headquarters in an attempt to stop threatened closing of nearly 30 public schools.
Today in history: 200,000 students boycotted Chicago public schools
On October 22, 1963, a coalition of civil rights groups organized Freedom Day, a mass boycott and demonstration against segregated schools and inadequate resources for black students.
