Payton’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter on Tuesday planted nearly 3,000 American flags along the path leading to the outdoor picnic tables in honor of the lives lost on September 11, 2001.
Student Group Creates 9/11 Memorial
CTU Sets Strike Vote for Late September
The Chicago Teachers Union’s elected delegates on Wednesday night voted unanimously to schedule a strike authorization vote for late this month.
Teacher Contract Talks Continue As Threat of Strike Looms
As Payton teachers returned to school this week to prep for the first day of classes on Tuesday, leaders of their union continued to negotiate with the City of Chicago over a new contract.
Payton Welcomes 11 New Teachers
Payton’s faculty will feature 11 new teachers this school year, two of whom are Payton alumni.
Solving the Programming Puzzle: How Payton’s Course Schedules Are Created
Each spring, Payton students submit their course requests for the following school year. On a website called Sound Programming, they rank their choices and select alternates as required. Yet this is only the beginning of an arduous process that will last all summer: Creating daily schedules for Payton’s more than 1,100 students.
‘Unforgivable Blackness’: The Ballad of Jack Johnson
Many students who work with the Best Buddies know their paraprofessional Ms. Hines. What many students do not know is that she is the great-great- niece of renowned boxer Jack Johnson. Every […]
Yearbook Reprint Stirs Controversy
Principal Timothy Devine on May 29 announced that Payton would reprint its 2018-19 yearbooks at a cost of more than $22,000 after the revelation that several students had been pictured making the “OK” hand gesture — a once-innocuous symbol that has been usurped by hate groups in recent months.
