Hannah Dreier The New York Times Sarah Stillman The New Yorker Sarah Conway City Bureau Invisible Institute Reuters The Washington Post Katie Engelhart NYT Magazine Vladimir Kara-Murza Justin Chang Los Angeles Times David E. Hoffman The Associated Press Congratulations to Invisible Institute, USG Audio and Yohance Lacour. #Pulitzer

Hannah Dreier The New York Times Sarah Stillman The New Yorker Congratulations to Sarah Conway, Trina Reynolds-Tyler, City Bureau and Invisible Institute. #Pulitzer

Here's what Chalkbeat Chicago's Samantha Smylie is watching as Illinois lawmakers finish up their spring session. chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/0…

Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay . These days I reflect often on how lucky I am that my job is protected by the First Amendment.

Please donate to Chalkbeat if you can. Your donations allow us to keep doing our jobs and keep an eye on local schools. chalkbeat.fundjournalism.org/donate/?campai…

I spent a recent Saturday observing the ALL Chicago Fellowship, a new effort to prepare people running for Chicago's first elected school board.

That Saturday, fellows got a crash course on what it really means to be on a school board.

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What does it take to be a school board member? A new Chicago leadership program aims to help people learn. The inaugural class is in session now, just months ahead of the city's first school board elections in November 2024. chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/0…

She’s gotten the grades, applied, been admitted & is heading to Illinois State University. She’s excited about sharing a dorm room with a friend. But, there’s one big problem: She doesn’t have any idea how much it will cost her.

WBEZ Open Campus

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'As more new arrivals leave the shelter system, they are beginning to confront the severe deficits in Chicago’s affordable housing market and myriad eviction practices—challenges that predate their arrival by decades and have plagued the Black community.'

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This year is going by so fast! Can’t believe it’s already 1st July.

#News : SEIU Local 73 and Chicago Public Schools finalized a tentative agreement Wednesday evening after a year of negotiations. Read more here: chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/0… #Chicago #education #labor #MayDay2024

School support staff in Chicago reach a tentative contract deal on May Day - after a year of negotiations. Read more from Samantha Smylie Chalkbeat Chicago chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/0…

Illinois high school students must fill out FAFSA to graduate — but maybe not this year, Samantha Smylie explains. Chalkbeat Chicago chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/0…

13 people running in Chicago’s first school board elections participated in a virtual debate Sunday to answer questions a/b equity, community voice + bus transportation for students.

@chalkbeatchi reports: buff.ly/4bgcews

Our friends at Chicago Public Media are looking for feedback on what issues matter most to parents and voters ahead of Chicago’s school board elections in November.  Fill out this survey at wbez.org/schoolboard to share your thoughts!

NEW: As 15 states sue to block new Title IX rules that offer expanded protections to LGBTQ students from taking effect, kids are caught in the middle.

“It’s hard to describe how much anger and pain there is,” one Louisiana high schooler told Erica Meltzer

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JUST IN: Former Chicago mayoral candidate Paul Vallas is among those who wrote now-unsealed letters of support for convicted ex-Ald. Edward M. Burke.

'Ed is worthy of whatever leniency you see fit to provide,' Vallas writes.

Mayor Brandon Johnson will be re-launching a guaranteed income pilot that provides $500 monthly payments to low-income residents as the city works to spend federal COVID-19 relief funding to avoid having to return it to the feds. wbez.org/stories/chicag… w/ Mariah Woelfel

Chicago’s $500-a-month guaranteed income program is coming back.
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Last night, after putting my kids to bed, I logged into Zoom for the first forum with Chicago school board candidates held by CPS Parents for Buses You can find out more here, check your district, and see who is running. Chalkbeat Chicago chalkbeat.org/chicago/2024/0…