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Black Middle School Students Given Cotton Pick And Clean During Slavery Lesson
A federal lawsuit accuses the Oak Park Elementary School District in Illinois of racial discrimination. The district sparked outrage after two Black students were given cotton as part of a class assignment about slavery. RELATED STORIES: Suge Knight Slams J. Cole For Waving White Flag In Kendrick Lamar Beef: ‘That Quitter Attitude Would’ve Kept Us ... Read more
Girls' flag football team at west suburban high school has season canceled
HILLSIDE, Ill. (CBS) -- Girls' flag football is now an official high school sport in Illinois, but a controversy at a west suburban high school has forced the girls to give up their season.At Proviso West High School in Hillside, the girls were excited to get to play flag football, with this being the Illinois High School Association recognizing it as a sport. Miracle Perkins and Damiyah Yard trained hard to play this year for the Panthers."I love football," said Miracle, a freshman at Proviso West, "like, that's one thing I wanted to grow up and do."Damiyah, a junior, saw...
Niles West puts football coach on leave; athletes make emotional appeal for his return
A large group of Niles West High School football team players and their parents asked Niles Township High School District 219 Board of Education members at their Oct. 8 meeting to quickly reinstate head football coach Nick Torresso after he was placed on mandatory leave. Torresso was placed on leave on Oct. 2, according to the district’s director of communications, Takumi Iseda. Naema Abraham, ...
Mom wants Chicago district to stop sending kids to N.Y. special ed school, claims abuse
CHICAGO (CBS) -- A Chicago mom is speaking out, calling on Chicago Public Schools to stop sending kids to a Westchester County, New York boarding school for students with autism. The CBS News Chicago Investigators have discovered that the school, Shrub Oak, has been investigated for reports of abuse and neglect. Yet, the Chicago Public Schools continue sending kids there. "There are kids that are nonverbal, that can't speak for themselves, and that is very upsetting," said Joanna Grenrock, the mother of a former Shrub Oak student. Grenrock was excited to send her then-21-year-old daughter, Zoe, to Shrub Oak...
Acero Charter Schools Network plans to close 7 schools next year; parents, students push back
The Acero Charter School Network in Chicago has announced planned school closures for the 2025 school year.The schools are:-Casas Elementary School-Cisneros Elementary School-Fuentes Elementary School-Paz Elementary School-Santiago Elementary School-Tamayo Elementary School-Cruz K-12 SchoolThe affected schools are in the Avondale, Brighton Park, West Town, Little Village, Pilsen and West Ridge neighborhoods.ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watchSantiago Elementary parents and teachers are very upset after learning the school may shut down next year.Some had not even heard the news Thursday morning. Parents described the school as a family that could be ripped apart."This is not a school," said...
Students at Minnie Miñoso Academy get lesson on school's namesake
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Hispanic heritage came to life for a group of Bridgeport students this week with a special guest appearance at their school.Minnie Miñoso Academy is named after the late White Sox icon, and his son wants to make sure students there know exactly who the Hall of Famer is.As Miñoso Academy principal Carrie Coles welcomed Miñoso's son, Charlie Rice-Miñoso, to school this week, she showed off her own memorabilia of the former White Sox star nicknamed "The Cuban Comet."A native of Cuba, Miñoso played 20 seasons in Major League Baseball over five different decades, 12 of them with...
‘No overnight encampments’: Chicago universities tell students where they can and can’t exercise free speech
Last week, at a teach-in about the history of Palestine at the University of Chicago, an exhausted Professor Eman Abdelhadi told a crowd of faculty members and students, “I don’t know what there is left to say.”. For a year, Abdelhadi has spoken out against Israel’s attacks on...
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