CPS
Field School students to start classes at renovated Key Elementary building
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An open house will be held Aug. 22 from 5 to 6:30 at the school, which is located in the former Francis Scott Elementary School that CPS closed nearly a decade ago.
Opinion
Improving education in Illinois
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Legislation signed into law last week by Gov. J.B. Pritzker expands already required Black history coursework to include pre-enslavement of Black people, why Black people came to be enslaved and the American Civil Rights renaissance. The new law – a key part of the Illinois Black Caucus’ legislative agenda – also increases the percentage of grant funds prioritized for Black males and incorporates consideration of financial need in awarding grants, among other improvements to higher education.
After School Matters
Applications open for After School Matters spring programs
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Slots are available for approximately 8,000 young people to participate in the after-school program that begins the week of March 8. The programs will be offered remotely, as they have been since last summer. Teens will earn a stipend between $90 and $250 depending on the length and level of expertise required for the program.
Teens teach others with their podcast
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Elijah Adams and Yafae Cotton, sophomores at Michele Clark Academic Prep Magnet High School, have been producing a weekly podcast since the coronavirus pandemic shut down schools across the state.
Community
Public invited to this weekend’s hands-on learning festival
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Events will be held May 16-19 at Michele Clark High School, the West Side STEM Learning Center and La Follette Park.
Austin
Elected official calls for reinvention of West Side school
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State Rep. La Shawn Ford says in the interest of justice, fairness and equity, Frederick Douglass Academy High School can and should be transformed.
Opinion
Leave the guilt and shame in last year
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You have control over your life and what you want it to be, writes commentator John W. Fountain III.
appropriate
Some students want the right to wear their own clothes to school
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Journalist Eddonishia Jones hopes schools officials will consider letting students ditch their uniform on some days.