We are 20 days away from Raise a Glass! Thank you to everyone who has bought a ticket, become a sponsor, bought an advertisement or given an in kind donation for our auction- over half of our support comes from donors like yourselves. As we continue our work on remote learning, school funding, local school councils, and special education, we cannot do it without your support! We are 35% of the way towards our goal. We are shipping out our swag so this week, can you support Raise Your Hand by buying a ticket? Thank you for supporting our work!

Our statements from today's meeting are below. The meeting will be live streamed on the CPS YouTube Channel starting at 10:30AM. Sometimes they are a few minutes late so keep refreshing the page until the live feed shows up. You can follow us on Twitter for some live tweeting: @ILRaiseYourHand. For more live tweets, please follow the #ChiDocumenter assigned to the meeting: @_KellyGarcia_. Press coverage is far below. 

Join us in toasting parents & caregivers at our annual event, Raise a Glass! We will be mailing out our RYH swag next week so get your tickets today!

Welcome. Our work around Special Education has spiked since the Covid-19 shutdown and subsequent remote learning! For that reason and more, we are creating this Special Ed Parent Resource Page for Remote Learning (which is a work in progress) where you can find the latest additions to our RYH-developed Special Education parent supports, as well as links to other resources we have collected for Remote Learning. 

Thank you for visiting our Back to School 2020-21: COVID-19 Resources page. We are sharing the latest guidelines, FAQ docs, and other relevant links for parents. Updated: 9.22, 8:45PM.

This is our third COVID-19 Resources page: You can find our original COVID-19 Resources page here (Spring 2020) and Summer 2020 here.

New from ISBE:  Early Childhood Guidance FAQ - Sept.16

New from RYH: UPDATE 9.14: We have a new RYH Special Education Parent Resources for Remote Learning and More Web page.  This is a work in progress and we will be adding resources as we create them or learn of them.  If you have any suggestions, please pass the links along to me at faheyhughes@gmail.com.  

TODAY, Wed, Aug 26 | 10:30AM | CPS, 42 W. Madison

Hosted by #PoliceFreeSchools youth

Wear a mask. Plan to physically distance. Bring water.

What concerns you? What's missing? What questions do you still have? Anything awesome?

You can read our live tweets here from the Tues, Aug 18, CPS FY2021 Budget Hearing. You can read our statement below. 

On Monday, CPS released its proposed FY2021 budget. You can find the CPS Budget 2021 webpage here- it includes both the operational and capital budgets- and the Budget Book is here.