WTTW | “CPS Looking to Improve Transparency, Accountability as It Continues to Rethink School Safety”
Chicago Tribune | “School resource officers are under scrutiny again in CPS as dozens of high schools reconsider the controversial police program”
Block Club Chicago | “CPS Agrees To Take 1 Officer Out Of Each Of 24 Schools That Voted For Removal”
Chicago Sun-Times | “CPD Agrees To Pull Cops From Schools That Voted To Remove Them”
Block Club Chicago | “2 Dozen CPS High Schools Voted To Remove One Officer From Campus. The Cops Are Coming Anyway”
WBEZ | “Chicago Police To Continue Sending 2 Officers To Schools That Voted To Have Just 1”
Chicago Tribune | “Some CPS schools could start year with 2 officers despite votes to reduce police presence; decision on CPD contract delayed”
Chicago Sun-Times | “Some cops to stay in schools that voted them out until CPS finalizes contract with police department”
Block Club Chicago | “Friends, Family Of Slain Youth Activist Caleb Reed Look For Permanent Home For A Mural In His Honor”
Chicago Sun-Times | “CPS schools remove dozens of cops, shifting $2M from school policing to other student supports”
Telemundo Chicago | “Escuelas de CPS votan para decidir si quieren o no policías en sus planteles”
Univision Chicago | “No son cárceles”: activista sobre la eliminación de policías de las Escuelas Públicas de Chicago”
Lawndale News | “Local School Councils Vote on New Approaches to School Safety”
WBEZ | “More Police Voted Out Of Chicago Schools — But They Remain In Mostly Black Schools”
Chalk Beat Chicago | “Final tally: Majority of Chicago high schools will reduce police presence on campus this year”
Chalk Beat Chicago | “School Safety Without Police: Social Workers, Private Security Considered As Chicago Councils Vote To Remove Officers”
WTTW Chicago Tonight | “As Local School Councils Vote on Keeping Police in Schools, Some Advocates Push for Alternative Models”
USA Today | “‘I Don’t Think You Are Ready’: Boys Of Color Fell Furthest Behind At School Amid COVID”
Chalk Beat Chicago | “Three Chicago Teens, One Pandemic Year: How COVID-19 Widened Education Gaps For Boys Of Color”
Chalk Beat Chicago | “Chicago Will Limit When Schools Call Police. Do Changes Go Far Enough?”
WTTW | “Board Approves CPS Code of Conduct Detailing How Administrators Should Deal With Police”
Chicago Sun-Times | “Not An Emergency? Don’t Call Cops, CPS Tells Administrators In New Policy”
WGN9 | “Killing of Floyd Spotlights Fraught Relationship Between Police and Black Community”
Chicago Sun-Times | “Post-George Floyd Police Reforms In Chicago ‘Disappointing,’ Community Leaders Say”
Chicago Sun-Times | “School Cops Won’t Return To CPS High Schools This Spring, District Says”
Chicago Sun-Times | “Adam Toledo Shooting Reinforces CPS Students’ Views On School Police”
WTTW Chicago Tonight | “CPS Considers Alternatives To School Resource Officers”
Chicago Sun-Times | “CPS Pushes Alternatives To Police In Schools, But Won’t Yank Them Yet”
Chalk Beat Chicago | “Chicago Asks Its High Schools To Come Up With Alternatives To Campus Police”
Block Club Chicago |“West Side Violence Prevention Group Helping CPS Design Alternatives To Cops In Schools: ‘A Whole Different Way Of Them Doing Things”
Chicago Sun-Times |“CPS Partners With 5 Community Groups To Develop New Safety Alternatives To In-School Officers”
WTTW|“CPS Partnering With Community Groups To Rethink School Safety Without Resource Officers”
Chalkbeat Chicago | “A Curveball For Civics: How Chicago Classrooms Are Responding To An Unusual Election”
Public News Service | “Chicago High Schoolers Educate Voters On Civic Duty”
NBC Chicago | “Race In Chicago: Behind The Effort To Bring Mental Health Services In Minority Communities”
Chicago Sun-Times | “While We March Against Police Brutality, Guns Are Killing Our Children”
Austin Talks | “Youth call on Chicago Board of Education to remove police from schools”
Crains Business |“Chicago school board votes to renew contract with CPD”
Chicago Tribune | “Amid protests, Chicago Board of Education votes to keep school police, but also moves to create phase-out plan”
Chicago Sun-Times | “CPS board votes to keep police in schools despite student protests”
Block Club Chicago | “CPS Board To Vote On Plan To Phase Out Police In Schools Wednesday”
Chicago Tribune | “Amid Protests, Chicago Board Of Education Votes To Keep School Police, But Also Moves To Creates Phase-Out Plan”
Chicago Sun-Times | “CPS board votes to keep police in schools despite student protests”
Block Club Chicago | “CPS Board To Vote On Plan To Phase Out Police In Schools Wednesday”
Chicago Sun-Times | “At CPS high schools, a stark racial divide on when cops are called on students and arrests”–
Chicago Tribune | “Police in Chicago Public Schools will get more training and oversight in reforms announced by Mayor Lori Lightfoot”
WBEZ | “Ahead Of A Key Contract Vote, Chicago Public Schools Retools The School Police Program”
WTTW | “CPS Announces New Reforms to School Resource Officer Program”
Chalkbeat | “Under Pressure, Chicago Unveils More Reforms To School Police Program”
Third Coast Review | “Friends, Family Honor Teen Activist Caleb Reed”
WGN9 | “Family remembers slain teen activist who worked against gun violence, police in schools”
NBC Chicago | “‘So Much Grief’: Teen Activist Killed in Weekend Shooting Mourned by Family, Friends”
Chicago Sun-Times | “Friends and family remember Caleb Reed”
Chicago Tribune |“Column: Chicago’s unending violence, and the children we’ll never have the chance to meet”
Chicago Tribune | “Community leaders vow to carry on work of slain activist Caleb Reed, and will press his high school to remove Chicago cops”
WTTW | “That Boy Was Loved’: Family, Friends Gather to Remember Slain Teen Activist Caleb Reed”
Block Club Chicago |“Loved Ones Honor Slain Teen Activist Caleb Reed: ‘I’m Going To Keep Pushing His Legacy No Matter What’”
WGN9 | “Rising teen activist killed in shooting in West Rogers Park”
WTTW | “Chicago Police: Arrest Made in Friday Murder of 9-Year-Old Boy”
ABC7 | “Young activist shot, killed in Chicago’s West Rogers Park neighborhood”
Chicago Tribune | “Teen activist Caleb Reed slain in West Rogers Park”
CBS | “Heartbreak After 17-Year-Old Activist Caleb Reed Is Found Shot Dead”
Block Club Chicago | “Teen Activist Fatally Shot Friday Afternoon In West Ridge”
Yahoo News | “Young activist dies after shooting in West Rogers Park”
NTD News | “34 Shot, 9 Fatally, Over Weekend in Chicago: Police”
Chicago Tribune | “Young Activist Dies After Being Shot In West Rogers Park. ‘We can honor him by continuing the call to end gun violence.”
Chicago Sun-Times | “Student Activist Killed In Shooting Weeks After Protesting Police Presence In CPS”
Fox News | “Nationwide Debate Sparks Calls To Remove Police Officers From Schools”
NBC Chicago | “Growing Calls For Schools To Remove Resource Officers Over Student Safety Concerns”
WGN9 | “Debate Over Police Inside Chicago Schools”
WBBM Radio | “Students, Parents Call For End Of CPD’s Contract With CPS”
Univision Chicago | “Exigen Sacar A La Policia De Las Escuelas Publicas”
WTTW | “Chicago Aldermen Call for Police to Be Pulled From CPS Schools”
Associated Press News | “Chicago Aldermen Propose Removing Police From Public Schools”
NBC Chicago | “Aldermen Push to Remove Police From Chicago Public Schools”
WGN9 | “Aldermen Push To Remove Police From Chicago Public Schools”
Chicago Tribune | “Aldermen, Activists Press For Moving Police Out Of Chicago Public Schools”
Chicago Sun-Times | “Aldermen, CPS Students Continue Push For Police-Free Schools: ‘You Have A Bad Day, You Get To Go To Jail?”
Fox News Chicago | “Chicago Aldermen Propose Removing Police From Public Schools”
Block Club Chicago | “It’s Time To Get Police Out Of Schools, New Ordinance Says — But Will Mayor Get On Board?”
ABC7 | “Chicago aldermen to introduce ordinance to remove CPD officers from CPS”
U.S. News | “Chicago Aldermen Propose Removing Police From Public Schools”
Chalkbeat | “Some Chicago city council members join efforts to remove police from schools”
Washington Post | “Fueled By Protests, School Districts Across The Country Cut Ties With Police”
Forbes Magazine | “How Student Activism Shaped The Black Lives Matter Movement”
WBEZ | “Special Training For School Police: How Do Young People Feel About It?”
Teen Vogue | “Distance Learning During Coronavirus Worsens Race, Class Inequality in Education”
Time Magazine| ‘We’re Really on Edge:’ As the Coronavirus Disrupts Family Life, Teens Are Taking on Adult Responsibilities”
Chicago Sun-Times | “For young people of color, the coronavirus is a triple whammy along with poverty and violence”
WBEZ | “Chicago Police In Schools To Stay Out Of Discipline Matters”
Education Week | “School Police Operations To Get An Overhaul In Two Big-City Districts”
Safe Schools Consortium | “Teachers Guide To Building A Restorative Classroom”
Chicago Defender | “Obama Foundation and Chicago Public Announce Winners Of Civic Engagement Awards”
Austin Talks | “Austin Groups Compete In ‘Elevating Voices’ Fair Saturday”
Chicago Sun-Times | “Obama Foundation, CPS Announce Civic Engagement Award Recipients”