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Suburban teacher who sued after she was denied paid maternity leave loses case in Illinois Supreme Court

April 17, 2020 at 6:05 p.m.

A four-year legal battle that pitted a suburban teacher against her employer ended Thursday when the Illinois Supreme Court sided with the school district, ruling the teacher was not entitled...

School Director Kylee Burke prepares a toddler to be picked up by her parents from South Loop Montessori, which has reopened as an emergency child care center during the coronavirus pandemic.

How does a school reopen during the coronavirus pandemic? A look at a Chicago Montessori that is back in operation for essential worker child care.

April 16, 2020 at 7:25 p.m.

Mornings at the South Loop Montessori School now begin with thermometers, a change of shoes and diligent hand-washing. When staff arrive from their commutes, they are already wearing gloves and...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

With thousands of Illinois students learning remotely during the pandemic, retired teachers raise their hands to offer free online tutoring

April 14, 2020 at 11:04 a.m.

Before the coronavirus pandemic confined Barbara Sinclair to her Naperville condo, the former public schoolteacher put her experience to use tutoring students in a GED class at a local college....

University of Chicago student Livia Miller, shown on campus Wednesday, is part of an effort to get tuition refunds from the school because of the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Some students are contemplating a "tuition strike."

College students are unlikely to get tuition refunds after coronavirus campus shutdowns. But it won’t be for lack of trying.

April 9, 2020 at 5:41 p.m.

In a bold campaign, hundreds of University of Chicago students are threatening to skip a key payment due this month. Student government leaders at Northwestern University have endorsed calls to...

A City Colleges employee has died from COVID-19. Coworkers say they were told she had bronchitis.

April 3, 2020 at 10:47 a.m.

City Colleges workers say they were told a colleague had bronchitis. Then they learned she later died of COVID-19. On a recent Zoom conference call, workers from the business office...

Yasmin Vinalay, 30, has worked as a cook at DePaul University dining halls for nine years but is suddenly out of work due to the coronavirus pandemic.

‘We just got laid off out of nowhere’: Cooks and cashiers at university dining halls plead for Chicago schools to pay lost wages amid coronavirus job cuts

April 3, 2020 at 11:15 a.m.

In order to put food on the table for her four young children, Yasmin Vinalay helps get food on the plates of famished college students. For nine years, Vinalay has...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus on Jan. 31, 2020.

University of Illinois financial hit from coronavirus ‘significant and growing,’ including $37 million in room and board refunds

April 3, 2020 at 6:27 p.m.

Illinois' largest public university expects it will cost $37 million to provide room and board refunds to students who left campus early because of the coronavirus outbreak — and additional...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is due to announce new details of a remote learning plan for CPS.

Chicago Public Schools aims to deliver 100,000 computers to students as it plans shift to remote learning, won’t rule out longer school closures

March 30, 2020 at 5:50 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools will officially begin remote learning on April 13 and aims to get tens of thousands of electronic devices into the hands of homebound students — but leaders...

Claire Dwyer, 18, with her dad, Kevin Dwyer, outside their Arlington Heights home on March 27, 2020. With college campuses shut down, Dwyer still isn't sure which college she wants to attend next year.

With high school seniors’ lives upended by coronavirus, universities are loosening enrollment deadlines, but some colleges are ‘being stubborn’

March 30, 2020 at 9:52 a.m.

Despite vast uncertainty over when their campuses can fully reopen, Illinois colleges continue to court prospective students, in some cases revising admissions deadlines and rolling out virtual tours to help...

‘We weren’t getting any help from the airlines’: With students stranded abroad, colleges chartered a flight to bring them home

March 24, 2020 at 6:36 p.m.

Kasia Enriquez left the airport in Quito, Ecuador, feeling defeated and with no solid leads about how she would find a way home. The college student from suburban Park Ridge,...

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