Nader Issa
Education reporter
Nader Issa covers education for the Chicago Sun-Times.
Despite Lori Lightfoot’s promise her Board of Ed wouldn’t be ‘a rubber stamp,’ it seldom crossed her
All but 24 of 2,048 votes by school board members the former mayor appointed were unanimously approved — a 99% passage rate with 98% unanimity, the Sun-Times found.
La nueva junta tomará sus puestos este mes y será la última junta de CPS completamente designada antes de que una junta ampliada y parcialmente elegida de 21 miembros asuma el cargo en 2025.
The new board will have a different feel than in past years when consultants, lawyers and bankers filled many of the seven seats. Only one of Johnson’s appointees is a lawyer, and she runs a legal aid organization.
The 6-3 decision by the high court’s conservative majority “will make it more difficult for Northwestern to achieve one of our imperatives — the promotion of diversity, inclusion and belonging on our campuses,” University President Michael Schill said.
Del Valle dirigió la junta escolar por múltiples crisis, incluida la pandemia de COVID-19 y las protestas por la renovación del contrato policial del distrito escolar.
Chicago Public Schools officials have been working on an updated naming policy for more than two years after a Chicago Sun-Times investigation found 30 schools were named for slaveholders.
Del Valle led the school board through multiple crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic and protests surrounding the school district’s renewal of its police contract.
Johnson said Wednesday he would defer to elected Local School Councils at individual schools, who are responsible for voting on whether to keep officers.
Buoyed in part once again by federal COVID-19 relief funding, Chicago Public Schools will spend about $220 million more in the 2023-2024 school year to hire teachers and other support staff.