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Chicago Schools’ Bid to Boost Black Student Achievement Draws Legal Challenge
A conservative advocacy group filed a legal challenge against Chicago Public Schools on Friday over an initiative to give extra support to Black students, calling the program discriminatory under federal civil-rights laws and in violation of recent guidance from the Trump administration.
Anti-DEI Group Files Complaint Against Chicago Public Schools' Black Student Success Plan
CPS officials emphasized that they will continue ensuring all students can achieve while acknowledging and uplifting their cultural identities.
Chicago Public Schools’ Black student success plan hit with federal legal challenge
In a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, a national group claims the plan is discriminatory, citing efforts by the Trump administration to rid schools of race-based programs.
Chicago Black Student Success Plan Amid Backlash Against Race-Based Initiatives
Last year, a Virginia-based advocacy group challenged a Los Angeles Unified School District initiative aimed at boosting outcomes for its Black students, which CPS said inspired its own plan. At the urging of the Biden administration, Los Angeles made changes to downplay the role of race, causing an outcry from some of its initiative’s supporters.
Parents Defending Education challenges Chicago district’s Black Student Success Plan as discriminatory
Virginia-based Parents Defending Education, which opposes race-based initiatives, said the Chicago Public Schools program is discriminatory.
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Chicago Schools Doubled Classroom Assistants In Recent Years — But Which Labor Union Represents Them?
The school district is grappling with tighter budgets and is locked in a labor dispute that advocates worry could lead to ...
Forrest Claypool: Chicago is holding itself back from a bright future
“The word bankruptcy has been hanging over Chicago like a storm cloud about to burst,” wrote American Enterprise Institute ...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson escalates push for CPS to pick up pension payment, borrow more money
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration is instructing the school board to move ahead on accepting the costs of a $175 million pension payment that has been a political hot potato between City Hall and ...
Parents demand answers after Albany Park elementary school goes days without proper heating
Parents are demanding answers after a Northwest Side elementary school went days without proper heat during a cold snap.
Chicago Threatens Its School-Choice Success
For how long will selective-enrollment schools prosper under Mayor Johnson?
Chicago forecast: Cold weather advisory with wind chills as low as -30
The advisory and school closures comes amid extreme cold warnings for 11 states across the U.S., stretching from the Canadian ...
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s 2026 budget proposal includes increases for K-12 schools and early childhood education
Gov. J.B. Pritzker gave his 2026 budget address on Wednesday. Here is what he asked lawmakers to approve for early childhood, ...