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Chicago Public Schools to begin school year with remote learning

CHICAGO (UPI) -- Chicago Public Schools announced Wednesday that schools will begin with remote learning when the school year begins in the fall. CPS CEO Janice Jackson and Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced the plan Wednesday, seeking to assure parents that while learning would take place exclusively online the schools would not be "cobbling things together" as Jackson suggested was the case when schools closed in March. "There will be more of a traditional infrastructure that you see in a school […]

todayAugust 5, 2020 4

Ballot Access News

Second Libertarian gubernatorial debate held Saturday, targets wide range of issues

BELLEVILLE (Heartland Newsfeed) -- The Libertarian Party of Illinois, in partnership with the Metro-East Libertarian Party, held their second gubernatorial debate between candidates Matthew C. Scaro, Grayson "Kash" Jackson and Jon Stewart at Southwestern Illinois College's Belleville campus on Saturday, Jan. 13. The debate was moderated by Aaron Wright, field operations director for the state party. The candidates gave 90-second opening statements, starting off with Stewart, who was fighting laryngitis. Stewart offered an apology to both Scaro and Jackson for his […]

todayJanuary 15, 2018 28

Business & Lifestyle

Ethics probe triggers resignation of Chicago schools chief

CHICAGO (Heartland Newsfeed) -- Forrest Claypool, chief executive of Chicago Public Schools, recently resigned following the release of a damning report filed by the district's office of the inspector general. The report, cited in a recent Chicago Tribune story, concluded that Claypool and the district's general counsel Ronald Marmer blatantly violated the district's code of ethics by improperly utilizing "contract management authority," citing work that was done by Jenner Block. Jenner Block had a prior business relationship with Marmer and […]

todayDecember 19, 2017 14

Business News

McCaleb: Legislators break into song and dance when real fix is needed

(Illinois News Network) -- I've been called many things, but handy isn't one of them. When something around the house breaks, I usually take a look at the problem, dig through my toolbox, look some more, and then call someone to fix it. Don't get me wrong. I can change a lightbulb and even have replaced the battery in our smoke detector. But if something more complicated stops working – say, the washing machine – I don't have a chance on […]

todayNovember 15, 2017 1

Business & Lifestyle

Manar/Bourne: Bipartisanship in General Assembly led to historic landmark school funding reform

Educating children should be a bipartisan issue. Two weeks ago in the General Assembly, it finally was. After years of working on this issue and months of intense negotiations, the General Assembly passed a landmark school funding reform law that fundamentally will transform the way Illinois funds its schools. This once-in-a-generation school funding legislation is the single most important bipartisan reform Illinois has seen in decades. As downstate legislators of different political parties, we were proud to work together on […]

todaySeptember 12, 2017 32

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