Andrew Martin

The Chicago City Council Wednesday unanimously urged both sides in the record-long 17-day school strike to end the walkout through binding arbitration. The advisory resolution, introduced by Ald. Roman Pucnski...

The Chicago Board of Education will try to open individual schools despite the continuing teachers strike if parents groups petition School Supt. Manford Byrd Jr. or local district superintendents, a...

The president of the Chicago Teachers Union held out hope Monday that the end of the city`s long school strike is in sight. ''I`m sure there can be a settlement...

Eight high school students huddled in a damp basement on the South Side Tuesday and scribbled furiously on scratch paper, trying to figure out a punishing worksheet of story problems....

''I was supposed to start, but the teachers took the day off'' said Crystal Scrimgeour Thursday, giving a 4-year-old`s interpretation of the strike by Chicago public school teachers. So Crystal,...