CPS teacher

Amanda Alvarez-Calo remained devoted to her East End neighborhood, and the close bonds she had there, even when her life underwent a dramatic change and a friend tried to convince her to move farther north.

Some Chicago Public Schools parents are questioning district policies after a substitute teacher was accused of sexual exploitation of a child. NBC 5’s Christian Farr reports.

Just days after Olga Quiroga, a veteran Chicago Public Schools teacher, died after a three-week-long battle with COVID-19, the beloved teacher and mother is being remembered as a fighter until the very end. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup reports.