In its report released in early April 1979, the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare said the Chicago Board of Education, contained Black students in segregated Black schools ...

Chicago Public Schools is close to a contract deal with the Chicago Teacher Union, CEO Pedro Martinez told top staff in an email Thursday morning. “Please have an update ready for the full Board ...

Chicago Public Schools spring break for 2025 began Monday, March 24, according to CPS' calendar. No school continues for students through Monday, March 31, listed as a school improvement day and a ...

Developers are being sought to breathe life into abandoned school buildings across Chicago. Twenty-one Chicago Public Schools properties, mostly school buildings, are up for sale, targeting buyers ...

A school in northwest Indiana will be closed ... We'll catch you up on the Chicago news you need to know. Sign up for the weekly Chicago Catch-Up newsletter. Wittington added that though officials ...

The union’s full bargaining team and executive board this evening approved the contract terms reached at the bargaining table last week with district leadership. The union has set up a House of ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson met with officials from the Chicago Public Schools and Chicago Teachers Union Wednesday, and afterward called for finding a compromise and avoiding a teachers' strike.

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights launched investigations into Chicago Public Schools, the Illinois State Board of Education and Deerfield Public Schools on March 20 for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A man was found shot to death near a South Side elementary school on Wednesday morning. The man was found at about 5:08 a.m. on Prairie Avenue near 101st Street, according to ...

Michael Brosilow Share The word school comes from the ancient Greek for “free time.” That’s one of my favorite language facts. Contemplating it can make you think differently about not just ...

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating some local school districts’ accommodations for trans students. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times file Share Federal funding for Chicago Public ...