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People pick up children after school at Montessori School of Englewood on Jan. 26, 2022, in Chicago. (Erin Hooley/baiduhai)

Charter school operators file suit seeking to declare state law requiring union neutrality ‘invalid’

June 20, 2024 at 6:01 p.m.

Three charter school organizations filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday, alleging a 2023 amendment to the Illinois School Code interferes with federal labor law and the charter school operators’...

Pedestrians pass Chicago Public Schools headquarters at Madison Street in Chicago on May 28, 2024. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

CPS: Elementary students topped pre-pandemic literacy rate in preliminary standardized test results

June 17, 2024 at 3:50 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools students in grades 3-8 appear to have performed better on English Language proficiency tests, than in 2018-19, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez during the Parent Mentor Program Convention at House of Hope in the Pullman neighborhood on April 23, 2024. (Eileen T. Meslar/baiduhai)

Chicago Public Schools vows to keep budget shortfall from classrooms after pleas for increased state funding go unmet. But some schools face cuts.

May 29, 2024 at 1:31 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools vows to keep budget cuts from classrooms after pleas for increased state funding go unmet. But some schools face cuts. Chicago Public Schools leaders’ hopes of averting...

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Charter school operators file suit seeking to declare state law requiring union neutrality ‘invalid’

CPS: Elementary students topped pre-pandemic literacy rate in preliminary standardized test results

Chicago Public Schools vows to keep budget shortfall from classrooms after pleas for increased state funding go unmet. But some schools face cuts.

After eleventh-hour plea from Mayor Brandon Johnson, Senate president likely to put school closing bill on hold

As CPS begins finalizing a new policy prohibiting cops in schools, a state bill could upend the district’s plans

CTU rallies in Springfield to demand greater funding for city’s schools

CPS agrees to raise wages of ‘lowest paid workers’, in a new, four-year agreement with SEIU Local 73

As pro-Palestinian protests at some U.S. colleges devolve into violence, Chicago campuses remain peaceful

Encampment opposing war in Gaza at DePaul launches, as university leaders meet with Foxx on response to student protests

Pro-Palestine protests sweep across Chicago’s college campuses, as students demand schools divest from Israel