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The Chicago Board of Education serves as the board of education (school board) for the Chicago Public Schools . The board traces its origins to the Board of School Inspectors, created in 1837. The board is currently appointed solely by the mayor of Chicago. Between 2024 and 2027, the board is slated to transition to consist entirely of elected ...
Ruth Burnett Love (April 22, 1932 – June 6, 2022), [4] [5] [6] also known as Ruth B. Love-Holloway [9] was an American educator, education administrator, author and former schools superintendent. [10] Love was formerly a professor of education at her college alma mater San Francisco State University. Love served as superintendent of the ...
Karen Lewis ( née Jennings; [2] [3] July 20, 1953 – February 7, 2021) [4] [5] [6] was an American educator and labor leader who served as president of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Chicago's division of the American Federation of Teachers, from 2010 to 2014. For nearly 20 years before becoming president of the teachers union, she was a ...
Brandon Johnson (born March 27, 1976) [1] is an American educator and politician serving as the 57th mayor of Chicago. [2] [3] [4] A member of the Democratic Party, Johnson was elected mayor in April 2023. He previously served on the Cook County Board of Commissioners from 2018 to 2023, representing the 1st district .
Benjamin Coppage Willis (December 23, 1901—August 27, 1988) was an educator and school administrator who served as superintendent of various school districts, most notably [7] as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools . Willis had received praise during his superintendency in several school districts prior to arriving in Chicago.
Paul Gust Vallas Sr. (VAL-iss; born June 10, 1953) is an American politician and former education superintendent.He served as the superintendent of the Bridgeport Public Schools and the Recovery School District of Louisiana, the CEO of both the School District of Philadelphia and the Chicago Public Schools, and a budget director for the city of Chicago.
Education. St. Mary of the Woods. Barat College ( BS) Jane Margaret Byrne (née Burke; May 24, 1933 – November 14, 2014) [1] was an American politician who served as the 50th mayor of Chicago from April 16, 1979, until April 29, 1983. [2] [3] Prior to her tenure as mayor, Byrne served as Chicago's commissioner of consumer sales from 1969 ...
On October 22, 1963, nearly half of all CPS students skipped school, leaving schools on Chicago's South Side and West Side mostly empty. The Chicago Tribune reported that 224,770 students were absent from CPS, amounting to 47 percent of the student population. [10]