Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson bounced two prominent high school principals on Monday over how they handled sexual abuse allegations. Jackson said in a statement that “initial findings … suggest they did not effectively safeguard their students.”

That’s a serious accusation. We don’t yet know the details of what investigators believe the principals — Sheldon House of Simeon Career Academy and Armando Rodriguez of Goode STEM Academy — did or didn’t do. We haven’t yet heard the principals’ side of the story.

Principals at two prominent Chicago high schools were removed from their duties Monday, pending what officials described as ongoing investigations into how the administrators handled sexual abuse allegations.

Sheldon House, the principal of Simeon Career Academy, was removed amid a newly disclosed allegation of sexual abuse lodged against an unnamed school volunteer. District officials said that allegation was discovered during an audit of “systemic issues” in the school’s background check process.

Some Illinois school districts are waiting on Gov. Bruce Rauner to sign a few bills they hope will alleviate a shortage of teachers.

Statewide, school districts reported more than 2,000 unfilled positions last school year, with 43 percent of those in Chicago Public Schools alone.

When Cook County property tax bills start arriving in the mail next week, some homeowners who are 65 and older are going to see higher bills than they should.

That’s because nearly 52,000 property tax exemptions aimed at seniors weren’t renewed this year, county officials say.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s City Council allies on Monday used a now-familiar political ploy to crowd off the Nov. 6 ballot former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn’s long-shot, binding referendum to limit Chicago mayors to two terms and therefore force Emanuel into retirement.

Instead of being asked whether Chicago mayors should be limited to two terms, the Rules Committee agreed to ask voters three nonbinding questions.

Congress Parkway will be renamed for civil rights icon Ida B. Wells to avoid a bitter battle with Italian-Americans triggered by the resurrected proposal to rename Balbo Drive.

Compromise talks aimed at finding an appropriate street to rename Ida B. Wells Drive had come down to a choice between Congress Parkway and Wells Street with Wells having the edge because it would not inconvenience businesses and homeowners at all with a change of address.

The Rockford School Board voted 6-0 Tuesday night to adopt a $490 million 2018-2019 fiscal year budget, which kicks in next month.

That total spending plan includes about $60 million in capital expenses. The district’s annual operating fund budget hovers near $440 million.

The Peoria City Council heard a staff proposal to close City Hall every other Monday starting in July, require 218 city employees to give up 12 days without pay through the end of the year and institute rolling layoffs in the city’s public works department.

The proposal follows a bleak first quarter financial report that saw revenue falling behind projections. City Manager Patrick Urich presented a picture of Peoria’s budgetary woes based on a decline in population — down from 116,400 in 2013 to 112,800 in 2017 — a decline in sales tax revenue and the fact that 85 percent of property tax money now goes to pay city pensioners.