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Parents Have Options If Their Child’s School Is Closing
There is uncertainty, confusion and questions among many parents in the Chicago Public Schools system. CBS 2′s Dorothy Tucker reports on the options available to them.
Teachers Head To Springfield To Urge Halt To School Closings
A group of about 50 teachers, parents and students from the Chicago Public Schools boarded a bus to Springfield Tuesday morning, to make their voices heard about school closings.
CPS Email To Parents Directs Them To Adult Web Site
The Chicago Public Schools system has apologized for sending an email to parents that included a typo in a web link that sent them to an erotic website as a result.
Parents, Teachers Rally To Save Neighborhood Schools
There were rallies at schools across the city today as parents and teachers organize to save neighborhood schools.
Parents Meet With Principal After Teen Arrested For Gun At School
Parents were attending a meeting at John Marsh Elementary School on Friday, after complaining that they weren’t officially notified about a teen’s arrest for bringing a gun to school until after they’d read about it on Facebook.
Emanuel: ‘All Of Us Are Residents And Citizens Of Sandy Hook’
Mayor Emanuel attended the ribbon-cutting for a new police station today but his thoughts were on the tragedy in Connecticut.
More Parents Shouldering Student Debt
As CBS 2’s Susan Carlson reports, more moms and dads are finding themselves making the payments on their children’s student loans just when they should be saving for retirement.
For Chicago Parents And Kids, Here We Go Again
CBS 2′s Mike Parker talks with parents and their kids about the news that the teachers’ strike will continue into its second week.
Not All Parents Supporting Teachers’ Decision To Strike
While teachers at Chicago Public Schools have drawn plenty of support from parents as they stage the city’s first school strike in 25 years, not all parents were supporting the teachers’ decision to walk out.
Families Scramble To Care For Kids, Fear Impact Of Long Strike
Walk through the doors at A and A Auto and you’ll find Bryan Duran’s temporary classroom—just a glance away from father Bryan Sr.
Parents Increasingly Worried About How To Handle Teachers’ Strike
As the clock counts down for negotiations and teachers talk about plans for a possible strike, parents and children alike are increasingly worried about what a walkout will mean for them.
Families Dreading Possibility Of A Teachers’ Strike
If Chicago Public Schools teachers go on strike, how will it affect their families?
Teacher Contract Impasse Could Leave Parents Caught In Crossfire
Parents of kids at Chicago Public Schools have a huge stake in teacher contract talks, but no spot at the bargaining table; if there’s a strike, they’re left to wonder, “What will I do with my kids?”
Best Places For Rekindling Romance In Chicago
With PTA meetings and soccer practices, midnight feedings and poopy diapers, you have to remember that you are still a person with separate needs. And you have a spouse who has those same needs. So here is the time to step out of the mystical magical world of parenthood and take a day to get lost in the romantic bliss that waits in the streets of Chicago.
Parent’s Prep: New Technology In Schools; What Parents Need To Know
Children who come with the ability to interact with computer screens and basic keyboard knowledge find it much easier to learn in today’s classrooms.
Brizard To Call Parents Personally To Remind Them Of First Day Of School
If you’re the parent of a Chicago Public Schools student, you might just get a personal call from executive officer Jean-Claude Brizard.
Former Teacher Charged With Sexting With Middle School Student
A 34-year-old teacher has been charged with sexting with one of the students at the Des Plaines middle school where he taught.
Parents Rally Downtown For Longer School Day
As 200 students and parents touted a longer school day and other initiatives on Saturday at a rally hosted by the advocacy group “Stand for Children” at Roosevelt University, a small group of protesters picketed outside.
Emanuel Scales Back Longer School Day
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools chief executive officer Jean-Claude Brizard have agreed to scale back the longer school day for elementary students.
Parent Groups Want Meeting With Mayor On Longer School Day
Several parents groups are questioning how the Chicago Public Schools can lengthen the school day starting next fall, without solid plans on how to use the extra time, or enough money to pay for it.
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- House Passes Concealed Carry Plan Opposed By Senate LeaderGun owners in the only state still banning concealed weapons would win that right under a plan approved by the Illinois House on Friday, but the governor and other powerful Democrats oppose the plan because it would wipe out local gun ordinances -- including Chicago's ban on assault weapons.220
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- Store Owner Kidnapped In Pilsen, SUV StolenPolice said the 78-year-old man was closing the store in the 1100 block of West 18th Street when a group of men threw a pillowcase over his head, hit him in the face, and forced him into his own SUV.248
- Man Found Shot To Death In Zion Supermarket Parking LotThe man found shot to death in a parking in north suburban Zion on Thursday afternoon has been identified as a Waukegan resident.152
- School Warns Parents Of Kidnapping Attempt On PlaygroundA man tried to abduct a 4th grader from the playground at Alexander Graham Bell Elementary School at 3730 N Oakley Ave on Wednesday.150
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