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Chicago Democrats leave students behind in their political games
The Chicago Public Schools system is a disaster, and it isn’t being helped by the fact that the city’s Democratic officials keep using it as a political tool. Mayor Brandon Johnson is trying to push out the district’s CEO, Pedro Martinez, over a dispute in which Martinez opposed Johnson’s plan for a $300 million short-term, […]
Steve Millar’s 3 takeaways from Week 6 of high school football season in Southland
We are ready to go into the home stretch of the regular season as Week 7 kicks off. Now is the time when conference championships start to get decided and playoff bids are secured or lost. Some teams — I’m looking at you, Brother Rice — helped themselves majorly in Week 6. Others are dealing with some adversity. Mount Carmel and St. Laurence both played without their starting quarterbacks and ...
Illinois educators and parents seek $550 million school funding increase for next year
Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news.Educators, parents, and advocates lobbied the Illinois State Board of Education to request an additional $550 million for K-12 schools from state lawmakers for the next school year during a Thursday budget hearing.That increase would be $200 million more than what state lawmakers put into the evidence-based funding formula for K-12 schools for the current budget. When the state created its school funding formula in 2017, legislators reached a bipartisan agreement to increase funding $350 million each year. But K-12 advocates have said for the...
South Side Students Gain Hands-On Experience at Obama Center with Lakeside Alliance
Lakeside Alliance, in partnership with the carpenters’ union, hosted an interactive workshop, offering students mentorship and career exposure in carpentry, engineering, and construction at the Obama Presidential Center (Photo Credit: Nicole Joseph). On a recent Saturday, high school students from the South Side of Chicago had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity...
University of Chicago, 2 other scientists awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry
CHICAGO (CBS/AP) -- A University of Chicago alumnus was awarded a share of the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday, along with two other scientists, for their work to discover powerful techniques to predict and even design novel proteins — the building blocks of life.John Jumper, who received his master's degree in 2012 and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2017, shared the prize with Dennis Hassabis — who works with Jumper at Google DeepMind, a British-American artificial intelligence research laboratory based in London — and David Baker, who works at the University of Washington in...
Olive Harvey College hosting job fair
A citywide job fair will take place at Olive Harvey College Thursday.Job seekers will have the opportunity to connect with employers across a range of industries, including transportation, construction, manufacturing, healthcare and security.Agencies taking place in the job fair include the CTA, Office of the City Clerk Anna M. Valencia, City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership, Civilian Office of Police Accountability (COPA) and Skills for Chicagoland's Future among others from the nonprofit and private sectors.Other participating organizations include Illinois Tollway, Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), Pace Suburban Bus, Metra Rail, REDefine Southside Partners Joint Venture (RSP-JV), and Northwestern Medicine, among others.The job fair runs from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. For more information, visit www.chicityclerk.com/citywidecareerfair24.
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