Reema Amin

2 weeks ago | blockclubchicago.org | Reema Amin

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. CHICAGO — Outgoing Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez filed defamation claims against the Chicago Teachers Union, its president, Stacy Davis Gates, and board President Sean Harden, according to court records posted Wednesday evening. The claims were added as an amendment to his ongoing lawsuit against some current and former Chicago school board members.

2 weeks ago | chalkbeat.org | Reema Amin

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. Outgoing Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez filed defamation claims against the Chicago Teachers Union, its president, Stacy Davis Gates, and board President Sean Harden, according to court records posted Wednesday evening. The claims were added as an amendment to his ongoing lawsuit against some current and former Chicago school board members.

2 weeks ago | chalkbeat.org | Reema Amin

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. Frank Niles Thomas, an appointed member of the Chicago Board of Education, is stepping down, board President Sean Harden announced Wednesday. In remarks to the public, Thomas did not disclose a reason for leaving. “Sometimes we’ve agreed, sometimes we’ve disagreed, but many times we spent more time working on those things that we agree on, and it has really been a pleasure,” Thomas said.

2 weeks ago | chalkbeat.org | Reema Amin

The Chicago Board of Education picked City Hall advisor and former principal Macquline King Wednesday as the interim CEO of Chicago Public Schools. King’s record at CPS came under scrutiny last week after the Chicago Tribune revealed she’d been investigated multiple times as a principal and was found to have failed to implement certain district protocols around student safety. King did not face formal discipline.

3 weeks ago | chalkbeat.org | Reema Amin

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news. During a recent afternoon at Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Paideia Academy in South Shore, Tressa D. McMillan quietly surveyed three students as they worked out math problems on a whiteboard, occasionally jumping in with a hint. On the other side of the room, Karimah Dyson was helping two students add long lists of double-digit numbers and calculate the averages.