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Chicago Teachers Union: No confidence vote in CPS chief also aimed at mayor

May 22, 2019 at 11:27 p.m.

The Chicago Teachers Union said on Tuesday that its members lodged a vote of "no confidence" on the leadership of district chief Forrest Claypool, a symbolic effort union President Karen...

Chicago school board to consider up to $500 million more long-term borrowing

May 22, 2019 at 11:27 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools said on Monday it plans to add up to $500 million in debt to its load of long-term obligations, an announcement that comes just days after Mayor...

Emanuel unveils latest CPS money-borrowing plan for district already $9 billion in debt

May 15, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Friday detailed plans for another round of borrowing to keep Chicago Public Schools afloat, a move that will sink the financially teetering school district deeper into...

Emanuel unveils $389 million borrowing plan for CPS to finish school year, pay pensions

May 15, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel's top aides on Friday laid out an eleventh-hour, $389 million borrowing plan to get Chicago Public Schools through the rest of the school year and make a...

Mayor Rahm Emanuel speaks at a naturalization ceremony on May 5, 2017. As Chicago Public Schools officials search for solutions on how to payits pension fund,<runtime:topic id="PEPLT000007532">Emanuel</runtime:topic>'s top finance officials last week said CPS has the cash it needs to complete the school year but lacks funds to pay the bulk of a more than $700 million contribution owed the pension fund by June 30.

CPS cancels presentation to pension fund

May 22, 2019 at 11:26 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools has backed out of the public presentation the district planned to give to the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund board later this week, a fund spokeswoman said Tuesday,...

CEO Forrest Claypool listens to speakers during a Chicago Board of Education meeting in Chicago, Wednesday, April 26, 2017.

CTU to take confidence vote on schools chief Claypool

May 22, 2019 at 11:25 p.m.

The Chicago Teachers Union will stage a districtwide referendum on the tenure of schools chief Forrest Claypool next week, though union leaders have already declared they have no confidence in...

CPS says it may fall short on upcoming pension payment

May 22, 2019 at 11:24 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools has enough cash to complete the school year but the system is still short hundreds of millions of dollars needed to make a pension payment due at...

Tooba Hanif, 10, left, and Brittany Jones, 9, work together in their writing workshop an accelerated class in October 2008. Teachers at Passages Charter School on the North Side voted to authorize a strike in May 2017.

Teachers at Edgewater charter school authorize strike

May 22, 2019 at 11:23 p.m.

For the third time this school year, teachers at a Chicago charter school are threatening to walk off the job. Teachers at Passages Charter School in the North Side Edgewater...

Participants of the Resist, Reimagine, Rebuild Coalition May Day march proceed down Ogden Aveue in Chicago on May 1, 2017, to Union Park to join with the larger May Day march to Daley Plaza.

Teens study ‘democracy in action’ at May Day protest

May 22, 2019 at 11:22 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools teacher Hector Sanchez brought 20 of his students to the May Day protest Monday across from the county juvenile detention center. The trip came as part of...

A woman dressed for the rain and cold walks along South State Street in the Loop on April 30, 2017.

Several rivers expected to flood as rain continues battering Illinois

May 22, 2019 at 11:22 p.m.

April's final weekend produced an onslaught of storms that prompted flood warnings and triggered the pumping of sewage and storm runoff into Lake Michigan, said weather and municipal officials Sunday....

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