Chicago schools approach opening in near chaos.
Students chant “save our schools” Wednesday during a protest near CPS headquarters. (Jean Lachat/Sun-Times)
LA class size hunger strike.
Jose Lara, a history teacher at the Santee Education Complex, gets a hug from his son, Jose Jr., 8, outside John Liechty Middle School, where he and other teachers and community members are participating in a hunger strike to protest proposed class-size increases and layoffs.