While Chicago Public Schools students continue to show post-pandemic gains in reading and math, interim CEO Macquline King said the “encouraging” data is just the start toward meeting the district’s ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago's part-elected, part-appointed school Board voted to raise property taxes. While it's a small amount, some Board members say any amount is too much during a time when some ...

Every day that Chicago Public Schools goes without much-delayed property tax revenue, the school district is paying $220,000 in interest on short-term loans it took out to make payroll — that’s the ...

The low-slung building shows few signs of life: Ivy branches snake up the exterior walls, weaving through cracked brick and boarded-up windows. Its marquee sign reads like an epitaph, with faded block ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- Seven minors are now facing criminal charges over an attack on a woman and her children near a Chicago Public Schools elementary school last month on the South Side, police said. A ...

Chicago Public Schools blinked on a small but symbolically charged property tax increase, as the city’s broader budget fight reached a boiling point. Chicago Board of Education President Sean Harden ...

State officials gave a Chicago charter high school the harshest possible sanction after an investigation found three years of “repeated and unresolved” special education violations. Instituto Health ...

Winter break is here for Chicago Public Schools Students, and at one school in the Pullman neighborhood, that meant a loud and festive sendoff before heading home for the holidays. Inside Edgar Allen ...

A teen and six children were charged after a mother was attacked by a group of kids while protecting her children outside a South Side elementary school in November. All seven minors were charged with ...

Seven kids have been charged in connection with an attack on a young mom and her son near a Chicago Public school last month. The children, aging in range from 10 to 13, were each charged with one or ...