Northwestern under fire as ADL Midwest calls for university president to resign, three students file suit
The backlash comes days after the university made an agreement with encampment organizers to take steps toward divesting from Israel.
The backlash comes days after the university made an agreement with encampment organizers to take steps toward divesting from Israel.
The campus joins protests across the country calling on universities to divest from companies supporting Israel.
Hundreds of University of Chicago students set up an encampment in the Main Quadrangle on Monday, joining groups on over 100 university campuses nationwide in support of Palestinians.
Protesters from the University of Chicago, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago and Roosevelt University rallied in support of people living in Gaza.
The mayor’s top ally — the CTU — is among critics of CPS’s lack of transparency and failure to prioritize aides, even though CTU supports the shift to needs-based budgeting.
Students linked arms and formed a line against police after Northwestern leaders said the tent encampment violated university policy.
Local School Councils at several specialty elementary schools say they are facing budget cuts, a claim backed by a WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times analysis.
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Evans has ties to a 19th-century massacre of Indigenous Americans, but trustees argue he wasn’t “directly culpable”
The proposed legislation is the latest and most significant backlash to a declaration in December by Mayor Brandon Johnson’s Board of Education that it would no longer prioritize selective schools and would refocus resources to neighborhood schools that have faced years of cuts and underfunding.