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Barbara Byrd-Bennett, who has stepped down as Chicago Public Schools CEO, was a former employee of Wilmette-based consulting firm SUPES Academy.

Emails show firm played up clout in pitch for controversial no-bid CPS deal

May 25, 2019 at 12:58 p.m.

Newly released emails from City Hall show how a controversial consulting firm played up its clout with Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration and Chicago Public Schools before securing a multimillion-dollar no-bid...

School board delays vote on Uptown charter, OKs charter for closed campus

August 18, 2019 at 7:39 p.m.

A charter school operator's controversial bid to open a campus in the Uptown area was put on hold Wednesday by the Chicago Board of Education, while another charter was cleared...

Rowe Elementary School third-grader Salome Dammalage, 9, and her mother, Marianela Arroyo, attend a public hearing about charter schools at the Chicago Public Schools headquarters Thursday, May 21, 2015.

CPS charter schools debate smoldering in Chicago and Springfield

May 25, 2019 at 12:58 p.m.

A charter network's effort to transfer a downtown campus to a larger building in the Uptown area drew praise from its supporters Thursday but condemnation from a group of elected...

In what would be a first, charter eyes expansion at CPS site closed in 2013

August 18, 2019 at 7:35 p.m.

A Chicago charter school could be the first independently operated educator to move onto Chicago Public Schools property shuttered during the 2013 closings. A community group that operates the Rowe...

Interim Chicago Public Schools CEO Jesse Ruiz, foreground, and board President David Vitale listen to public comments during a CPS board meeting April 22, 2015, in Chicago.

Audit of CPS’ procedures for rewarding noncompetive deals to be delayed

August 18, 2019 at 7:33 p.m.

A review of how Chicago Public Schools awards noncompetitive contracts that was promised by district officials in light of a federal criminal investigation is behind schedule. School board members last...

Green silhouettes of children are displayed on the glass windows at the Chicago Public Schools headquarters on West Madison Street.

CPS employee used principals’ passwords in $870,000 scam, prosecutors say

August 18, 2019 at 7:32 p.m.

A Chicago Public Schools employee stole more than $870,000 from two high schools in a scheme with four others after the principals of those schools gave him passwords to the...

5 charged in theft of more than $870,000 from Chicago Public Schools

August 18, 2019 at 7:31 p.m.

Five men, at least one of them a former Chicago Public Schools employee, stand accused of stealing more than $870,000 from two city high schools by fraudulently billing for goods...

Pedestrians pass the Chicago Public Schools headquarters April 21, 2015, on West Madison Street in Chicago.

New light shed on City Hall’s ties to CPS scandal

May 25, 2019 at 1:23 p.m.

The consultant at the center of a federal investigation into his firm's $20.5 million no-bid contract with Chicago Public Schools acknowledged Wednesday that he advised Mayor Rahm Emanuel's transition team...

Chicago Teachers Union files labor complaint against school board

August 18, 2019 at 7:27 p.m.

The Chicago Teachers Union has filed an unfair labor practice complaint accusing the city's school board of bad-faith bargaining and refusing to engage in mediation toward a new contract. Union...

The CPS board declined to offer an extension of the current teachers contract, saying it couldn't afford the required minimum 3 percent pay increase, which CPS projected would cost $105 million.

CPS asking teachers to take 7 percent pay cut, union says

May 25, 2019 at 1:50 p.m.

The Chicago Teachers Union said Tuesday that the school district is asking teachers to take a 7 percent pay cut in their next contract, an offer that portends tough negotiations...

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