Medicaid offers a significant funding opportunity for schools to address the mental health needs of students. In 2023, Illinois expanded Medicaid to cover more services for more students. In this study, we examine school-based mental health service use before and after expansion in CPS, where more than half of students are enrolled in Medicaid.
Chicago Public Schools principals and staff this week will begin training as the district is set to implement its holistic safety plan citywide — more than two years after police officers were removed from district campuses.
CPS and its partner organizations last week published a new implementation guide for the Whole School Safety plan as the district this year is set to implement that model across all schools citywide...
This post was originally published by Attendance Works on February 24, 2026. Attendance Works partners with schools, districts, states, communities and organizations to ensure that chronic absence is recognized as a serious issue that can be addressed through proactive, supportive strategies.
“It seems like a good time, regardless of the state and its achievement profile, to join in and ensure the resources that support instruction are there to make sure students have access to early literacy,” Davis said.
The new law will require significant training on evidence-based phonics instruction that might be limited somewhat by union contracts, but “it’s not going to be enough to do a one-shot training,” Reville said. Districts and the state will also need to build out data systems to track results, such as fewer students requiring intensive remediation by the 3rd grade...
In 2011, Elaine Allensworth took the helm of the UChicago Consortium and poured herself into what has always been at the heart of the UChicago Consortium: the conviction that research and practice belong together. The evidence speaks for itself. As Elaine steps down as our Lewis-Sebring Executive Director, we want to pause and say, simply: thank you. We are so glad she isn't going far. Elaine will continue at the UChicago Consortium as a Research Professor, and we can't wait to see what she does next. We'll let her tell the rest of the story.
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