Texas Senator: "Do Plessy vs Ferguson" Cornyn made the remark via Twitter in a share of former President Barack Obama's statement on the Roe reversal Salon · Jun 25, 2022
Elizabeth Wellington: Overturning Roe v. Wade takes away the right to choose the life we want I was born 10 months after the Supreme Court upheld a woman’s right to obtain an abortion in the 1973 landmark case of Roe v. Wade. The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jun 24, 2022
Afternoon Edition: June 22, 2022 Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories. Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 22, 2022
CPS scraps plans for new $120M Near South Side high school — for now Pedro Martinez, the school system’s chief executive, made the surprise announcement at Wednesday’s school board meeting at which members were expected to debate and vote on the plan. Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 22, 2022
Does Chicago’s Near South Side need a new $120 million high school? With Chicago Public Schools enrollment falling, the Chicago Board of Education is about to take up plans to build a new high school near Chinatown. Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 22, 2022
Decades after special education law and key ruling, updates still languish It has been 40 years since the U.S. Supreme Court first took up a case about special education in public schools, Board of Education of the Hendrick Hudson Central School District v. Rowley. In that case, the court ruled that a deaf student didn’t qualify for a sign-language interpreter because… The Conversation · Jun 10, 2022
CPS to tighten school security in wake of Texas school massacre, CEO says Before the Uvalde massacre, the CPS operational budget included money for improving school security, Martinez said. But after hearing the details of what went on in Texas, some principals are demanding an “even more aggressive” response. Chicago Sun-Times · May 27, 2022
CPS’ $175M pension payment narrowly approved by Board of Ed as City Hall ripped for saddling district with debt The board voted 3-2 Wednesday to increase CPS’ obligation to the underfunded pensions to more than triple what it paid in 2020. Before that, the city covered the full cost. Chicago Sun-Times · May 25, 2022
Massive CPS data breach exposes records of 560,000 students, employees The staff and student information was exposed after a CPS vendor was targeted in a ransomware attack on Dec. 1, the district said. Chicago Sun-Times · May 20, 2022
The fight against school segregation began in South Carolina, long before it ended with Brown v. Board When it comes to the case of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision that outlawed school segregation, the focus is often on Topeka, Kansas, the home of the Brown family and the school board that it sued. But the story of the case actually had several… The Conversation · May 16, 2022
US schools are not racially integrated, despite decades of effort Nearly seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the court’s declared goal of integrated education is still not yet achieved. The Conversation · May 13, 2022
Eggers offers replacements for South Dakota banned books Best-selling author Dave Eggers is offering high school seniors in South Dakota’s second-largest city free copies of his book “The Circle” and copies of four books by other authors that were removed from the district’s schools The Independent UK · May 5, 2022
Lightfoot leaves Board of Education seat empty after arguing against elected board The mayor fought against an elected board, saying it was imperative she appoint all its members. Leaving a seat open for 9 months — especially with two more vacancies looming — is “problematic,” one lawmaker said. Chicago Sun-Times · May 1, 2022
Editorial: Many questions and few answers on math textbook ban On the website of Houston-based Accelerate Learning is a group photo of young people, lined up and holding hands. Tribune News Service · Apr 29, 2022
Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 27, 2022 Parents protest school budget cuts as CPS CEO defends against ‘incomplete’ claims About 150 parents with several community groups rallied outside CPS’ Loop headquarters Wednesday ahead of the monthly Board of Education meeting to decry budget cuts at their schools.
Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 25, 2022 CPS to scrap school ratings, replace them with less ‘punitive’ system Though a replacement hasn’t yet been created or publicly detailed, the Board of Education is expected to vote Wednesday on the parameters for a new system to replace the School Quality Rating Policy (SQRP).
Tribune News Service · Apr 23, 2022 'The frustration is deep': In Wyandotte County, Kansas, anger growing over political setbacks First, Kansas lawmakers approved a congressional map that divides Wyandotte County for the first time in 40 years.
Axios · Apr 14, 2022 Hurdles remain 75 years after key Latino segregation case The 1947 Mendez v. Westminster ruling set up the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision, but its legacy is overshadowed.
Los Angeles Times · Mar 30, 2022 Tutoring, a key learning recovery strategy, reaches fewer than 1 in 10 LA students LOS ANGELES — Tutoring, considered a cornerstone to academic recovery from the pandemic, has reached fewer than 1 in 10 Los Angeles students, a sign of continuing challenges in efforts to help students in the nation's second-largest school system.
Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 21, 2022 CPS to settle 2 special ed students’ sex assault lawsuits for $1.5M The agreements come after the Board of Education approved a $1 million settlement last month in a similar complaint by a special education student at a North Side elementary school.
Chicago Tribune · Feb 24, 2022 Masks are staying in Chicago Public Schools, but some parents demand to know ‘where is the COVID-19 off-ramp?’ CHICAGO — The mask mandate in Chicago Public Schools was the first order of business at Wednesday’s Board of Education meeting, which President Miguel del Valle opened by restating that masks are staying on in schools, despite the imminent end of the city’s requirement.
Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 23, 2022 CPS board affirms mask mandate, but CEO hopes they can be optional before end of school year "I do predict there’ll be a day we can go mask optional," CPS CEO Pedro Martinez told the Board of Education at its meeting Wednesday. "And I would love that to happen before the end of the school year."
Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 23, 2022 CPS reaches settlements in 3 special ed students’ sex assault lawsuits The Board of Education approved a $1 million payment in a case involving an alleged attack by another student in a bathroom at a Rogers Park school.
Los Angeles Times · Feb 17, 2022 Mark Z. Barabak: From liberal San Francisco, school board recall is a three-alarm warning for Democrats San Francisco is quite familiar with earthquakes, and what happened Tuesday — the ouster of three extreme lefties from the Board of Education — was not one of those.
Reason · Feb 16, 2022 San Francisco Voters Fire 3 School Board Members "Progressive" school COVID policies no longer welcome in the capital of progressivism