Becky Vevea
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Chicago Bureau Chief @chalkbeat @ChalkbeatCHI Past: @WBEZpolitics @WBEZeducation @chicagonewscoop @journalsentinel. Tips? [email protected]
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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.
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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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#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…
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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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
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…