A new initiative at Morton College loans students MacBook or iPads for educational and personal use to close equity gaps for full-time students. Online education continues to grow as an opportunity to engage students, but some students continue to be left behind due to inequitable access to technology. A 2023 survey found four in 10 college students had struggled to gain access to a device including a computer or laptop in the past year, and 80 percent had experienced unstable internet.
CHICAGO — The family of Dexter Reed on Wednesday filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and five officers involved in the March 21 shooting in Humboldt Park that left Reed dead and a Chicago police officer wounded. The 81-page, 17-count lawsuit was announced by Reed’s family’s attorneys at a news conference outside the Chicago Police Department’s Harrison District (11th) station .
In the month since the shooting, Reed’s death has spurred calls for the CPD to cease its use of plainclothes tactical officers and to reexamine its policies on traffic stops.
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