What does it take to get a building permit in Chicago?

By Joe Tabor

06/20/2024

Chicago lags behind other cities in housing affordability. The city’s permitting process could be holding it back.

Chicago Teachers Union killing charter school access for many families

By Hannah Schmid

06/19/2024

The Chicago Teachers Union’s current contract limits the growth of charter schools in Chicago. The union’s new contract demands seek to further deny access and limit parents’ options for their children’s educations.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Hard look at job rules can pull more Illinoisans from poverty

By Larry Han

06/18/2024

If Illinois used data-driven reviews before imposing job rules, more people could find work and escape poverty.

TAGS: poverty, unemployment

Vallas: Neighboring schools show why Chicago Teachers Union is so wrong

By Paul Vallas

06/14/2024

Students at a private school and a Chicago public school in the same neighborhood experience very different outcomes in their educations. Which one produces struggling students? The one dominated by the Chicago Teachers Union.

TAGS: education

Chicago Teachers Union fails to turn $68K per student into even 1 academic win

By Hannah Schmid

06/14/2024

Douglass Academy High School had 35 students with nearly 900 seats unfilled. None were proficient on the SAT. The Chicago Teachers Union wants to add at least eight staffers there and at every other school in the district at a cost of $1.7 billion.

TAGS: education

Chicago might boost housing affordability by allowing more granny flats

By Dylan Sharkey

06/13/2024

Chicago’s city council could boost housing affordability by expanding a program to allow more dwellings to be developed on existing home sites.

TAGS: affordable housing, Chicago

Poverty hits Black, Hispanic Chicagoans hardest, but education, jobs fix that

By Chris Coffey

06/11/2024

Black and Hispanic Chicagoans are persistently impacted by poverty more than other racial groups. What city and state leaders need to focus on is helping people down the path of education, job and then family.

Public can see Chicago Teachers Union tactics at open bargaining session

By Patrick Andriesen

06/11/2024

Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union will open their contract bargaining sessions to the public for the first time on June 14. Concerned Chicagoans can attend in-person and make their voices heard.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union demands $1.7B for librarians, climate champions, gender support coordinators

By Hannah Schmid

06/10/2024

The Chicago Teachers Union demanded each of the 623 Chicago schools hire multiple new positions, including librarians, climate champions and gender support coordinators. Even nearly empty schools would be required to hire these extra staffers.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Teachers Union family health insurance about $4,300 less than yours

By Perry Zhao

06/07/2024

The Chicago Teachers Union is already paying about $4,300 less than the families whose taxes must support their health benefits. They will be seeking an even sweeter deal this summer.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

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What does it take to get a building permit in Chicago?

Chicago Teachers Union killing charter school access for many families

Hard look at job rules can pull more Illinoisans from poverty

Vallas: Neighboring schools show why Chicago Teachers Union is so wrong

Chicago Teachers Union fails to turn $68K per student into even 1 academic win

Chicago might boost housing affordability by allowing more granny flats

Poverty hits Black, Hispanic Chicagoans hardest, but education, jobs fix that

Public can see Chicago Teachers Union tactics at open bargaining session

Chicago Teachers Union demands $1.7B for librarians, climate champions, gender support coordinators

Chicago Teachers Union family health insurance about $4,300 less than yours

FAQ: How the federal scholarship program would help Illinois students

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Diana Graham

Process for unionizing non-state workers raises red flags

CBS Chicago: Illinois’ highest-paid superintendent receives $400K per year to oversee 1,200 students