Chicago Public Schools officials announced the first enrollment increase the district has seen in a dozen years, with 1,185 more students this school year. At the first in a series of community meetings Thursday, the district also said its attendance rate has held steady despite the loss of bus service for thousands of students, and it shared efforts to devise a five-year road map for .
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A couple dozen Black leaders attended Thursday’s Board of Education meeting to ask for a committee that would develop a strategy to help Black students academically.
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He’s giving it a couple more weeks. Chicago Public Schools parent Deepak Jha says he and his first grade son, Vansh, can only keep up their daily three- to four-hour round-trip commute on public transportation for so long. Jha was among the scores of Chicago Public Schools parents who received a three-week notice that their children wouldn’t have bus transportation to and from school this .