Joel Hood

Staff at Infinity Chicago, an alternative high school on the city's Far South Side, thought they were doing everything they could to calm tensions between its often troubled and sometimes...

Stung by another round of school closings and turnarounds, some community leaders are looking at how Chicago can return to publicly electing its school board. At a meeting Friday at...

If it seems like the pace and emotional intensity of stories about the Chicago Public Schools has increased, it's because it has. Months of escalating tension between the mayor's office,...

If it seems like the pace and emotional intensity of stories about the Chicago Public Schools has increased, it's because it has. Months of escalating tension between the mayor's office,...

Dozens of people packed a conference room at Chicago Public Schools headquarters today and another 100 or so filled an overflow room upstairs to plead for board members to put...

If it seems like the pace and emotional intensity of stories about the Chicago Public Schools has increased, it's because it has. Months of escalating tension between the mayor's office,...

On the eve of Wednesday's board vote on school closings and turnarounds, Chicago Public Schools has reached a deal with community leaders on the West Side to bring in a...

Hundreds of community activists, parents, students and union leaders are expected to converge Wednesday morning at Chicago Public Schools'headquarters to pressure the school board to reject a reform package that...