Juan Perez Jr.

The Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday agreed to pay $250,000 to a law firm that formerly employed the school district's top attorney to handle a lawsuit that may never...

Chicago Public Schools is preparing to overhaul its special education programs, citing persistently low test scores for disabled students, insufficient oversight and a lack consistent standards even as costs have...

Spending plans are due Friday from Chicago Public Schools principals who have had to confront budget adjustments based on student enrollment and changes to how the district is distributing one...

With budgets that in many cases are significantly down from a year ago, some Chicago Public Schools principals face hard choices with little more than a week to prepare spending...

Chicago Public Schools' principals will have to make it through a full year with budget cuts made in February, though officials said the district expects to avoid teacher layoffs and...

With individual school budgets due out next week, Chicago Public Schools is telling principals that "classrooms will be protected" from spending cuts in the coming year. "They haven't said if...

Chicago Public Schools made a $658 million payment to the teachers pension fund Thursday, a check fund officials say is about $12 million light. The Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund says...