A new, nonpartisan watchdog launched this week with the mission of advocating for the thousands of American kids it said are unfairly or illegally turned away from public schools each year. The...
At 8:21 pm on Thursday, January 20th, my principal called me to confirm another positive COVID case in my homeroom. This marked our fourth transition to remote/hybrid instruction this year. This...
As a single mother of four—three of them in school, and one in college—I’ve had to face my share of struggles. But some of the biggest struggles have come when my children ended up in...
2022 arrived in America’s public schools not with a bang, but rather, a long and tired sigh. Students need stable, high-quality schools more than ever, but everyday staffing is desperately fragile....
The politics of education are broken and we are seeing the effects of it play out in real-time. In Chicago, a stalemate over remote learning options and reopening of schools amidst the Omicron...
Once again, drama is flaring over Chicago Public Schools’ management of the pandemic. In the city of Chicago, more than 330,000 children are not learning today because last night, teachers voted to...
