Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the Student Safety topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
OSP and OIG report more investigations and trainings as CPS says it’s increasing capacity
Summary
District officials reported roughly 12,000 reports and 4,100 opened OSP cases in school year 2025 and described steps to increase training and timeliness; the Office of Inspector General described its caseload and removal/reinstatement statistics during a board presentation.
Elizabeth Mendoza Brown, chief Title IX officer in the Office of Student Protections (OSP), told the board the office received “approximately 12,000 reports” in school year 2025 and opened about 4,100 investigations. OSP opened 2,064 student-to-student misconduct cases and investigated bias-based harm and general staff-misconduct cases; Mendoza Brown highlighted a roughly 70% increase in dating-violence cases from the prior year and said Latino and Black students were the most represented complainants.
Mendoza Brown summarized preventive and training work: mandatory 'Protecting Chicago Children' training compliance was about 82% districtwide, bystander-intervention compliance 72%, and OSP conducted 115 individualized corrective-action trainings and rolled out updated student-facing materials and parent videos. She said OSP will expand training and materials for school representatives and continue to refine reporting and auditing processes.
Inspector General Phil Wagenekt presented the OIG’s allegations-unit trends, saying the unit narrowed intake to prioritize sexual-misconduct allegations and that last school year the OIG opened 246 cases and closed 336. He said the OIG has substantiated 471 reports since 2018 and that, so far this fiscal year, 31 staff members were pulled/removed pending investigation; 14 individuals have been reinstated after fact gathering and eight subjects have been fired, resigned, or retired during the year.
Board members pressed for demographic breakdowns and root-cause analysis; several members said they wanted more timely investigations and asked both offices to provide additional data and follow-up. Interim CEO/Interim superintendent Dr. Macklin King said district staff would partner with the OIG to provide the board more context behind the numbers.
What’s next: OSP said it will provide more detailed demographic breakdowns on request and continue to expand training and school-based investigative capacity; the OIG reiterated the importance of timeliness and said it would continue prioritizing complex cases.
