While they’re in high demand, more and more foreign doctors are starting to see America’s immigration process as too risky an endeavor.

Conversations on religious freedom are key to democracy, but they are missing from the discourse this election year, writes a scholar who studies the role of religion in politics.

As one of the last large, influential organizations outside the government, the church is being targeted in Daniel Ortega’s ongoing crackdown.

Students found the topic of climate change less boring when they studied it using a numbers estimation game.

Paramedics had to rush a Kansas foster teen to the hospital because the 15-year-old girl was overdosing on muscle relaxants at a foster care contractor’s office.  One month later, paramedics rushed back to that same Topeka office because a different foster child found glass and cut himself.  “Child on (scene) cut up his arms and […]

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Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news.Chicagoans will vote for school board members for the first time in November.Starting Jan. 15, Chicago’s Board of Education will go from seven members appoi…

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news.Two educators and mothers with children in Chicago Public Schools — Jennifer Custer and Michelle N. Pierre — are vying to represent families and residents i…

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news.Two former teachers and former CPS students are running to represent District 3 on Chicago’s first elected school board.District 3 encompasses parts of Humb…

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news.Four candidates are running to represent District 2 on Chicago’s first elected school board.District 2 covers the far Northeast corner of the city and inclu…

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest education news.Chicago’s District 10 is one of the city’s largest and most socioeconomically diverse, covering a South Side lakeshore swath stretching from Bronzeville dow…