On September 29, 2021, Pedro Martinez, who has more than 30 years of experience in the private, nonprofit, and public education sectors, began serving as ...

Rachael Mahmood, the Illinois Teacher of the Year for 2024, took a year off from teaching to hear from educators across the ...

Declining school enrollment has left 30% of Chicago public schools at least half-empty. The city’s failure to address this ...

The board on Wednesday voted to approve Macquline King, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s senior director of education policy and a ...

Continuing Studies classes for children, teens, and adults at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) provide the highest quality education in art and design ... workshops, and certificate ...

Chicago has been slow to provide many schools with what they need to serve English learners the way state law intended. The result? Students left waiting for an education they’re legally entitled to ...

School districts and higher education institutions choose to participate ... HGSC certification is a symbol of this commitment, achievement, and leadership. Chicago Public Schools’ Gold Certification, ...

Chicago Public Schools ... in the country to earn a new certification aimed at improving health and sustainability in schools, a move staff say will improve the education and well-being of its ...

One of those programs is called Option 9, which is an expedited certification program where you also get paid to work at a school. Cochran Elementary School teacher Shelby Haarman says without the ...

The department ordered state education offices to sign the certification and collect certifications ... up on the news you need to know with the Chicago Catch-Up newsletter.

One way to help with this problem is to make it easier for people to obtain a teaching license. This means getting rid of unnecessary and inconsistent certification processes which only serve as ...

Buddy West Elementary School second grade bilingual teacher Karen Del Rio loves to learn, a fact that was borne out by her completion of National Board Certification within a year. National Board ...