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CPS School Board candidate Sendhil Revuluri drops out, making it a three-way race (opens the original)
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One of four remaining candidates for Chicago School Board president is suspending his campaign, saying he’s come to the conclusion that he cannot compete with the special interest groups pouring money into the election. Sendhil Revuluri’s name will still be on the Nov. 3 ballot, but he said Tuesday that he’s “not willing to spend either an irresponsible amount of my own money or spend more of others’ time, money and energy trying to keep up when these other groups have leaned into messaging that
Six Des Plaines cops, including officer who fatally shot 21-year-old man, placed on administrative leave (opens the original)
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Six Des Plaines police officers have been placed on administrative leave, including the officer who fatally shot a “violent” man wielding an electric hedge trimmer during a confrontation earlier this month in the northwest suburb, police announced Thursday. The fatal shooting of Ayham Babidi, 21, happened Sept. 9 about 2:30 p.m. at 2047 E. Touhy Ave. In a Thursday statement, the Des Plaines Police Department said it placed six officers on temporary paid administrative leave, a standard procedure
Should Chicago close more schools? Candidates for school board president diverge on key issue (opens the original)
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Closing public schools in Chicago became a political hot potato after former Mayor Rahm Emanuel shuttered 50 at once in 2013, creating upheaval in communities and leaving neighborhoods with decaying empty buildings. But as student enrollment continues to drop, a growing chorus of people say it’s time to do another round. A moratorium on school closings will lift in January, just as the city’s first fully elected school board is sworn into office. For decades, the mayor controlled the school boar
Aspira to let judge decide what happens to money from sale of taxpayer-funded school, after WBEZ report (opens the original)
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After Aspira of Illinois declared bankruptcy in June, the nonprofit listed a building constructed with $27 million in taxpayer funds that housed one of its closed charter schools. In court records, the nonprofit indicated that it planned to use money from the sale to pay off debt and continue operating with whatever was left. But last week, an attorney for the nonprofit told a judge that Aspira will instead put money from the sale aside and wait on the court to decide where it should go. Exactly
CPS wins back millions in federal funding after Trump administration settles lawsuit (opens the original)
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Chicago Public Schools has won back millions of dollars in federal grants that top education officials took away after concluding that the school district had violated students’ civil rights by having a Black Student Success Plan and policies that support transgender students. CPS sued the federal government in March alleging that the grants were taken away without following the process required by law. That case was settled on Thursday after the U.S. Department of Education agreed to return the
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