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Search results for keyword: Education found in 312 News.

education
  • by david hall
FAFSA financial aid form mess has delayed college plans for high schoolers in Chicago, elsewhere

“It really put me on edge,” Samaya Acker, a senior at Air Force Academy High School on the South Side, says of the new form's flawed rollout, which has delayed financial aid awards and college decisions for many high school seniors and others hoping to attend college next year.

education
  • by david hall
120 Chicago public schools could lose after-school programs this summer

Illinois mistakenly overspent its latest round of funding and will run out of money for hundreds of programs that serve about 15,000 kids in Chicago. The programs' advocates encourage state lawmakers to intervene.

politics
  • by david hall
Northwestern president grilled by Republicans about deal with pro-Palestinian protesters

President Michael Schill is one of three university leaders to face harsh questions and criticism from House Republicans today.

education
  • by david hall
CPS board, Springfield could hold dueling votes on school cops

The social justice protests in the summer of 2020, after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd, have sparked thorny debates ever since. A Springfield bill on the issue is the latest backlash to Mayor Brandon Johnson's Board of Education.