Chicago Public Schools

CPS CEO Pedro Martinez circa 2006

September 21, 2024

15 years ago when this reporter was working on his PhD in Educational Leadership, we had an assignment to learn about public school finances. I figured why mess around, so I went straight to the top. I interviewed Pedro Martinez,…

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Did the Chicago Board of Education Cover Up a School Rape? Then promote administrator afterwards?

October 27, 2023

One day Jesus Quiroga and his family were watching La Virgen de Guadalupe, a popular Mexican TV show, where a girl informed her mother that her mom’s boyfriend had raped and impregnated her. The mother refused to believe it and eventually both…

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Long-time Chicago teacher gets 10 years for sexually assaulting two girls first reported by @CWBChicago

September 23, 2023

Eugene Westmoreland Chicago police A long-time Chicago school teacher was sentenced Friday to ten years in prison after he pleaded guilty in three cases that accused him of sexually assaulting two underage girls, including one of his students. September 23,…

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Sex Abuse Cover Up – CPS Refuses to provide documents in CTU Skalinder case

September 7, 2023

Sex Abuse Cover Up – CPS FOIA refusal to provide documents after the Illinois Attorney General determined they should be provided to subx.news … Chicago Public Schools is refusing to provide documents after the Illinois attorney general determined they should…

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnsons Transition

Brandon Johnson Transition Team Recommendations For Schools

July 11, 2023

The 223-page document released Thursday includes an ambitious progressive education agenda for the former middle school teacher and union organizer who took office in May. Mila Koumpilova, Chalkbeat Chicago 7:22 AM CDT on Jul 11, 2023 CHICAGO — Create a…

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The outgoing Chicago Board of Education members

Brandon Johnson replaces most of Chicago Board of Education

July 5, 2023

The new board will have a different feel than in past years when consultants, lawyers and bankers filled many of the seven seats. Only one of Johnson’s appointees is a lawyer, and she runs a legal aid organization. By Sarah Karp…

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A digital sketch of animals falling off from the pit

Hysteria and Fear

February 28, 2023

Turning on the TV. Looking at my social media feed. All I see is doom and gloom. Here in Chicago, we are in a fight. A fight for what I don’t know yet. Is it a fight to be safe?…

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35 years later nothing has changed .. Moffat and now Skalinder ... Sexual Predators in Chicago Schools

35 years later nothing has changed … Moffat and now Skalinder … Sexual Predators in Chicago Schools … question is why was a high ranking union official allowed to continue to work with teachers and students … this is an ongoing investigation

December 26, 2022

Past cover up of sex crimes against children in CPS by politicians and government … (1987) James G. Moffat, was a former high school principal and once deputy superintendent of the Chicago Public Schools, the second highest-ranking post in the…

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Lauren Bianchi, a Chicago Teachers Union official

Daddy Dearest: Union Official Scamming the System

November 14, 2022

Lauren Bianchi, a Chicago Teachers Union official and Environmental activist,uses Dealer Plates and does not have a city sticker working as a Chicago PublicSchools teacher. Multiple Chicago Eastside residents have contacted Substance News regardingwhat seems like a tax dodger and…

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Noted Chicago labor lawyer Robin Potter

[ Nepotism ] Mother of Chicago Teachers Union Trustee Gets $4 Million While Fired Black Teachers Get Only $12,000 Each

December 14, 2021

In a long-drawn-out lawsuit that was filed by Robin Potter, mother of current Chicago Teachers Union Trustee Jackson Potter (the case was filed while Jackson Potter was Chief of Staff for the CTU). There will be a settlement that gives…

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