Julian Shen-Berro

2 weeks ago | chalkbeat.org | Amelia Pak-Harvey |Julian Shen-Berro |Angie Bacha |Ronak Shah

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. Chicago Public Schools officials are back at the bargaining table — this time, with the district’s principals.

1 month ago | chalkbeat.org | Catherine Carrera |Samantha Smylie |Julian Shen-Berro |Hannah Dellinger

Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to get the latest news about the city’s public school system delivered to your inbox. El Houcin Houssam was always fascinated by mathematics and thought he would take his number skills into the financial services industry. But it turned out it wasn’t the business of numbers that fascinated him. “I realized that what truly motivated me wasn’t working with numbers in a business setting,” said Houssam, a math teacher at West Side High School in Newark.

1 month ago | chalkbeat.org | Samantha Smylie |Julian Shen-Berro |Hannah Dellinger |Yesenia Robles

Mayor Brandon Johnson, Chicago Public Schools, and the Chicago Teachers Union agreed on one thing Wednesday following a closed-door meeting between the three parties: They are very close on settling a union contract that has been bargained for nearly a year. But while the mayor and Chicago Board of Education President Sean Harden characterized the meeting as productive, CTU leadership and CEO Pedro Martinez emerged frustrated.

1 month ago | chalkbeat.org | Samantha Smylie |Julian Shen-Berro |Hannah Dellinger |Yesenia Robles

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. Illinois advocates gathered in Springfield on Tuesday to push the state to release $50 million budgeted for after-school programs this year, saying the delay has cost some workers their jobs and caused parents to lose child care. The Afterschool for Children and Teens Now coalition, known as ACT Now, is asking for the Illinois State Board of Education and Gov.

1 month ago | chalkbeat.org | Julian Shen-Berro |Hannah Dellinger |Yesenia Robles |Jason Gonzales

Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. As a freshman, Vivien McNab was already thinking about how to turn her passion for cartooning and fan art into something others could enjoy. Attending events like New York Comic Con, she developed “a habit” of buying key chains and art, and started developing her own mock-ups, experimenting with art she might one day be able to sell.