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Earvin "Magic" Johnson, shown in 2015, is part owner of SodexoMAGIC, a company that has a cleaning contract with Chicago Public Schools.

Chicago Public Schools expands program to clean up schools

May 22, 2019 at 9:41 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools is responding to complaints about unclean buildings by doubling the size of a maintenance program run by a firm partly controlled by former NBA superstar Earvin "Magic"...

Students bump fists at Wells Community Academy High School in West Town on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015.

Reports address Chicago’s under-enrolled neighborhood high schools

June 11, 2018 at 2:00 a.m.

A "sustained, coordinated citywide effort" is needed to ensure the future of neighborhood high schools that have been hard-hit by dwindling enrollment amid greater school choice over the last decade,...

Thomas Vranas, left, co-owner of the SUPES Academy at the center of a Chicago Public Schools bribery scandal, at the Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on April 12, 2016.

CPS bribery scandal figure pleads guilty, faces up to 5 years in prison

March 26, 2019 at 11:04 p.m.

A second figure in the bribery scandal that brought down former Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett pleaded guilty to federal charges on Tuesday. Thomas Vranas, a co-owner of the...

Online remedial class results worse than traditional courses: study

June 12, 2018 at 1:52 a.m.

Chicago Public Schools students who used online courses to make up for failed math classes fared worse than those who took traditional remedial courses during summer school, according to new...

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis and Vice President Jesse Sharkey at an April 2016 news conference.

CTU cancels vote, handing President Karen Lewis a third 3-year term

June 11, 2018 at 2:35 a.m.

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, who gained national prominence with her leadership style and denunciations of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, won another three-year term without having to run. The CTU's...

Chicago Public Schools said it issued 512 offer letters to families who'd applied to enter LaSalle Elementary magnet school's first through eighth grades. But only 16 spots were available.

Nearly 500 kids mistakenly told they were in LaSalle magnet school

May 22, 2019 at 9:38 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools mistakenly told hundreds of families that their children had won a coveted spot at a marquee North Side school this week — then had to quickly retract...

Chicago Teachers Union member Mike Peet, an English teacher, signs social studies teacher Joan Chandler's, 2012 strike sign as they picket outside Amundsen High School on the North Side as part of a one-day union strike April 1, 2016.

Chicago Teachers Union tries to leverage momentum from walkout

June 11, 2018 at 4:05 a.m.

As demonstrators left downtown streets late Friday, the Chicago Teachers Union was left to figure out how to leverage its one-day strike to achieve a new contract and increased funding...

Chicago teachers rally in Loop to cap day of protests

May 22, 2019 at 9:36 p.m.

Chicago Teachers Union members and their supporters capped a day of protests by converging in the Loop on Friday afternoon for a rush-hour rally and march. Teachers gathered at the...

CPS files labor charge against teachers union over walkout

May 22, 2019 at 9:37 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools has filed a charge against the teachers union with a state labor board over Friday's one-day strike. In a filing to the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board,...

Chicago Public Schools teachers Tammie Vinson, left, and Katie Sciarine, both of Oscar DePriest School, load signs in their vehicles March 30, 2016, in preparation for Friday's one-day walkout.

Chicago Teachers Union pushes broad message for fiscal reform with walkout

June 11, 2018 at 4:39 a.m.

The financial crisis at the root of the Chicago Teachers Union's planned one-day walkout Friday is different from past troubles for the school district in an especially alarming way: No...

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