According to the Chicago Public Schools' AI Guidebook, the district plans to provide access for all high school students to Google Gemini for the new 2026-2027 school year. Use this letter-writing too...

Join Team SGD for 45 to talk with neighbors and collect signatures to get S Gronkiewicz-Doran on the ballot for Alderperson of the 45th Ward! We'll kick off at 9:30 and knock doors until 12:00 when w...

Join Team SGD for 45 to talk with neighbors and collect signatures to get S Gronkiewicz-Doran on the ballot for Alderperson of the 45th Ward! We'll kick off at 9:30 and knock doors until 12:00 when w...

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The department will no longer include information on nonbinary students and has excluded "gender identity" from its definition of rape.

Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage  less-regulated — and often riskier — inv...

The Oregon Public Utility Commission unanimously approved Portland General Electric’s rate hike for large energy users to take effect Wednesday. Residential rates will go down 1.3%.

For many transgender people, finding an affirming place where they can simply be themselves isn’t something they take for granted. As transgender identities continue to be the subject of political and...

The moves to the federal departments of Health and Human Services and Justice, respectively, would further dismantle an agency that President Donald Trump has vowed to close.

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Article Summary State Lawmakers will assess how much progress has occurred in public education under the Evidence-Based Funding formula. According

For-profit charter school operators have found a way to exploit a legal loophole — collecting federal education dollars meant for students and funneling them into their own pockets. Now, a bill introd...

Financial aid offer letters are supposed to tell families how much they will have to pay for college, which can be the deciding factor in where — or even whether — students go to college. But too often, the letters leave out important information and use terms that make it confusing to figure out the final cost. Some student advocates say the letters are downright deceptive. Others believe the lack of consistent language causes confusion; each college has its own format with its own vocabulary. This can make it difficult to answer the critical question: How much will this cost me?

Federal prosecutors charged Tim King, 59, in a three-count indictment accusing him of misusing Urban Prep funds to cover his own personal credit card expenses and then attempting to cover up that thef...

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In a letter to families, CPS shares an important update from the Chicago Police Department.