Chicago principal removed from duties over response to student dressed up in apparent Nazi uniform on Halloween

CHICAGO — Chicago Public Schools announced Friday that Jones College Prep Principal Joseph Powers has been removed from “principal duties, effective immediately, pending the results” of an investigation into his response to a student who came to school on Halloween dressed in a German military uniform, goose-stepped across a stage during a costume contest and gave a Nazi salute. The Chicago Teachers Union on Friday had called for his removal and students had planned to stage a walkout from class Monday. “As many of you may have heard, seen, or read, there was an incident earlier this week wher...