Joel Hood

Under pressure from parents groups opposed to a 71/2-hour school day, Mayor Rahm Emanuel said today he is scaling back his proposal to a 7-hour day for public elementary schools...

The Chicago Public Schools official accused in a recent inspector general's report of accepting perhaps thousands of dollars in improper gifts from the district's two largest food vendors resigned ahead...

Despite severe cost cutting, scores of layoffs and wholesale restructuring last year, Chicago Public Schools faces a budget deficit estimated at $600 million to $700 million in 2013, with the...

The Chicago Teachers Union renewed calls for a publicly elected school board during a rally in front of CPS headquarters Wednesday morning.Union officials and community activists said the only way...

Concerned over a rash of ethics violations by city employees in 2010, Inspector General Joseph Ferguson urged Mayor Richard M. Daley to implement a citywide ban on gifts from businesses...

Around the time Louise Esaian took over as chief of food services at Chicago Public Schools in 2007, Chartwells-Thompson Hospitality launched a pilot program to provide free breakfasts to students...

The chief of food services at Chicago Public Schools and two members of her staff have received gifts worth thousands of dollars from the district's two largest food vendors since...

In the wake of a gifts scandal inside the Chicago Public Schools food services department, employees who oversee vendor contracts will begin a new round of training to reaffirm the...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools chief Jean-Claude Brizard on Saturday called for the school district's food services director to be fired, after an inspector general's report a day...