Nader Issa
Education reporter
Nader Issa covers education for the Chicago Sun-Times.
The staff at the Humboldt Park high school announced a Sept. 6 strike deadline at a Wednesday rally.
CPS officials said this month that they still had not caught up with the bus driver shortage despite increasing driver wages and hosting several job fairs.
More neighborhood, evening meetings are scheduled to provide better access for students and parents with daytime work schedules than workday meetings in the Loop.
Temperatures are expected to hit the mid-90s with dangerous heat indexes soaring up to 115 degrees, the National Weather Service said.
After a seemingly quick summer break and ahead of a forecast heatwave this week, students, parents and leaders kick off the school year with “the same level of energy across the whole city of Chicago,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said Monday.
Chicago Public School students head back Monday after one of the shortest summer breaks in memory, with the school system again moving its return earlier into August.
Thousands of new English-learning students joined CPS last year. Thousands more are expected this year. CPS is trying to find a way to reach them all.
Nine principals have been removed pending discipline or investigations into “serious misconduct” in recent years. Of those, six are Black men.
Here’s a roundup of the new rules and resources put into Illinois law for the 2023-2024 school year.