CTU’s Karen Lewis: ‘We have other places we can fight’
Karen Lewis strode a few paces from her Merchandise Mart office to a conference room with downtown views, clad in a royal blue skirt and head wrap that contrasted with...
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Mayoral candidate Garcia says CPS should drop fight over lawsuit
Cook County Commissioner Jesus "Chuy" Garcia, a mayoral candidate backed by the Chicago Teachers Union, said Chicago Public Schools should "end its self-defeating fight" against a federal lawsuit alleging pregnant...
Common Core test spurs angst among educators, parents
When students in DuPage County's Lake Park High School District took a field test of Illinois' new state exam last spring, the reaction stunned administrators: "Our students said it was...
Chicago Public Schools COO Tom Tyrrell resigns
Tom L. Tyrrell, the chief operating officer for Chicago Public Schools who helped manage the closings of nearly 50 schools in 2013, is leaving the district to pursue an unspecified...
CPS schedules makeup days after cold snap
Chicago Public Schools has announced when it will make up two days of classes that were canceled earlier this month because of cold weather. The makeup days will be Friday,...
Study looks at aftermath of Chicago school closings in 2013
Ronald Brooks and his daughter, Star, faced a difficult choice after Lafayette Elementary School was closed along with dozens of other Chicago schools in spring 2013. Chopin Elementary, the district's...
Chicago Public Schools defies mandate on new standardized exam, PARCC
Chicago Public Schools are set to defy a mandate to launch a standardized exam districtwide this spring, despite the potential for sanctions that could include some loss of federal funding....
Obama’s plan for free community college has seed in Chicago
President Barack Obama's plan to offer a free community college education to qualified students is based at least partly on a Chicago initiative, White House officials said. The president laid...
Illinois falls short in $20 million effort to develop 1,000 teachers
The state has spent more than $20 million in the past decade to develop 1,000 teachers who would work in distressed public schools and boost the number of minority educators...
Emanuel lays out platform for CPS
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Thursday unveiled his education platform for a second term, setting goals of opening more specialty high schools and giving higher-performing schools more independence but failing to...