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First-day attendance at CPS ticks up toward pre-pandemic levels

Officials are considering the rate an accomplishment after pandemic attendance struggles — and given it’s the earliest start to a CPS school year in modern memory after an unusually short summer.

Chicago Sun-Times

Review: After Cult Leader Was Convicted, His Compound Was Raided by Child Protective Services

The Netflix docu-thriller Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey shows the downfall of Warren Jeffs and the unjustified taking of 450 children inside his religious community.

Reason

Advocates pitch new plan for Near South CPS high school without breaking housing promises

The proposal pulls together a few separate ideas that have been floated in recent months in an attempt to alter Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan for a new $120 million school on former public housing land.

Chicago Sun-Times

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A.P. govt. employees back teachers’ anti-CPS protest

Stage protest sporting black badges in Ongole

The Hindu

Scrap CPS, teachers and employees demand

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Family’s agony as daughter, 15, forced to wait two years for rape trial

‘We’re all flattened, just totally devastated by the whole thing,’ he said

The Independent UK

Private equity investor Palatine sells stake in ground testing specialist CTS Group

CPS provides on-site and laboratory testing services to UK construction, quarry products and the civil engineering industries

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Build housing, not new high school, on land promised to displaced CHA families

Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan appears to be moving forward, despite significant community opposition and even though nearby high schools could easily absorb more students with expanded programs and resources.

Chicago Sun-Times

Promoting junior prosecutors will help clear courts backlog, says Labour

Emily Thornberry says plan will ‘get the wheels of justice turning’ as almost 350,000 cases await trial

The Guardian - UK

Labour vows to get ‘all hands on deck’ to tackle courts backlog

The party says it would pave the way for a two-thirds increase in the number of people serving as crown prosecutors.

The Independent UK

Teachers allege ‘threats’ by police, Education dept. officials to foil their Sept. 1 protest plan

Leave denied, personal vehicles being taken away, allege leaders

The Hindu

Andhra Pradesh: Alternative options on CPS being considered, says Botcha

‘It could not be scrapped as promised due to administrative hurdles’

The Hindu

Why aren’t more Chicago parents going for free universal preschool?

CPS is offering universal pre-K for 4-year-olds in most of the city, but WBEZ found that thousands of seats are unfilled — mostly in schools serving high numbers of low-income families with large majorities of Black or Latino children.

Chicago Sun-Times

Paedophile exchanged sick messages with 'depraved' abuser

Prosecutors described the content of Paul Pickerill's communication with Vicki Bevan as 'extremely distressing'

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Nervous and somber, students at Chicago high school return to campus as more details about shooting emerge

CHICAGO — As the Carl Schurz High School students passed under the school’s brown iron gates Thursday morning, community members greeted them with doughnuts and flowers outside the Northwest Side school, a day after a shooting that left four teens wounded, including two Schurz students.

Chicago Sun-Times

CTU delegates approve CPS safety agreement, send vote to full union

The uneventful and under-the-radar settlement of this year’s deal comes as a sigh of relief for educators and families.

Chicago Sun-Times

No child should have to sit through a 2-hour bus ride to get to school

We understand the challenges and appreciate that CPS is prioritizing buses for special education and homeless students, but it is not acceptable for any student — let alone one who has a disability — to spend four hours a day on a bus, five days a week.

Chicago Tribune

4 people believed to be students are shot near high school on Chicago's Northwest Side, authorities say

CHICAGO — Four people believed to be Chicago Public Schools students, including three age 15 or younger, were shot near a Northwest Side high school Wednesday afternoon, Chicago police said.

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Chicago Sun-Times

CPS sex misconduct allegations return to pre-pandemic levels

A rise in misconduct reports was expected as students and staff returned to classrooms full-time after COVID-19 disruptions.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Chicago Sun-Times

Some CPS special ed students endure 2-hour bus rides as transportation problems continue to start year

CPS officials say the situation, which they chalked up to a driver shortage during the pandemic, is far better than last year.

Chicago Sun-Times

Man charged in hit-and-run outside gay bar, Sacred Rose fest preps for its debut and more in your Chicago news roundup

Today’s update is a 5-minute read that will brief you on the day’s biggest stories.

Manchester Evening News

Man nearly sliced off taxi driver's nose after knifepoint robbery in 'sadistic' act of violence

Richard McCormack, 38, was handed a life sentence at Manchester Crown Court for the 'gratuitous' act

The Independent UK

Pensioner admits manslaughter of her husband

Janet Dunn, 73, was charged with killing 81-year-old Anthony Dunn at a property in Ponteland, Northumberland, on March 15.

The Independent UK

Woman, 73, pleads guilty to manslaughter of husband, 81, as murder trial due to start

Janet Dunn was charged with killing Anthony Dunn at in Ponteland, Northumberland

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