Joel Hood

Twelve Chicago Public Schools principals and assistant principals have been removed from their positions for allegedly falsifying forms for free and reduced lunches for their own children, the school district...

Chicago Public Schools'proposed budget for the coming school year drew boos and hisses Wednesday night from more than 200 teachers and community activists who packed a public hearing at Malcolm...

Six years ago, Norma Brown, a Chicago Public Schools teacher for more than 30 years, took a stand against a fourth-grader who refused to remove his baseball hat in the...

Amid calls to make student punishment less severe, Chicago Public Schools officials unveiled revisions to its student code of conduct Monday that eliminate mandatory 10-day out-of-school suspensions for even the...

School districts across Illinois are failing to disclose thousands of drug, weapon and teacher assault incidents to the state as required by a long-standing state law created to give the...

Chicago teachers countered Mayor Rahm Emanuel's aggressive approach to school reform with the most powerful weapon in their arsenal, giving overwhelming authorization for a strike if contract talks continue to...

The Chicago Teachers Union says nearly 90 percent of its members have voted to authorize a strike, far more than the required 75 percent. At a news conference announcing results...

The Chicago Teachers Union will announce Monday that more than the required number of members voted last week to authorize a teachers strike, the union vice president said Sunday. Jesse...