Some Chicago Board of Education Members Call for CPS Remote Learning Amid Immigration Operations

Some Chicago School Board Members Call For Virtual Learning For Immigrant Families

School board members said district families are living in fear because of aggressive federal immigration raids: "This is an emergency right now."

Educators push for virtual schooling in response to ICE raids

Chicago joins New York and Los Angeles districts in exploring remote options to ensure students and parents are safe amid the federal immigration crackdown.

Some Chicago Board of Education members call for CPS remote learning amid immigration operations

Some Chicago Board of Education members want CPS to switch to remote learning amid immigration operations in the city. .

Board members urge CPS to consider ‘emergency’ remote learning amid continued immigration raids – Chicago Sun-Times

“We should have a remote learning plan in the event of an emergency. But if the governor does not call a state of emergency, we do not have the ability to just send the district into remote learning,” Interim Supt./CEO Macquline King said. She encouraged school board members to lobby the state.

Board members urge CPS to consider ‘emergency’ remote learning amid continued immigration raids

Interim Supt./CEO Macquline King said district leadership has discussed its options, including remote learning, but added that CPS does not have the authority to make that move without an emergency declaration from Gov. JB Pritzker.

Amid ICE surge, Board of Education urges CPS to offer remote learning

Amid the swell of detentions by federal immigration officers in neighborhoods across the city, Chicago Board of Education members are calling for greater support for students and families living in fear and vulnerable to recent enforcement sweeps. Parents are afraid to send their children to school while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers lurk nearby. Students are sharing live updates on ICE agent locations. And whistles blow, ale…