Chicago’s education landscape faced an unprecedented set of challenges this year, from public school budget problems to ...

Linda Brown, a 53-year-old Chicago Public Schools teacher, is missing from the city's South Side and may be in need of ...

Using taxpayer dollars intended to educate children, over 600 Chicago Public Schools staffers exploited lax rules to take ...

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CPS Board of Education President Sean Harden said the pullback was due to "outstanding questions" among board members.

The city’s 2026 budget includes a $1 billion surplus of money from special tax increment financing districts, known as TIF.

The Chicago Board of Education has raised its property tax levy to fund Chicago Public Schools, but opponents say property ...

Several Chicago Public Schools were ranked among the "Best Elementary Schools" in Illinois for 2025-26 in a new list from U.S. News and World Report, a Rockford school cracking the top 5 and ...

Chicago Public Schools hasn’t yet officially provided its enrollment for the 2025-26 school year, but Chalkbeat reported (preliminarily) that there are about 12,000 fewer students at CPS schools this ...

Just halfway through the month of May, five students have been wounded in three shootings this month outside Chicago Public Schools. All five victims of the three shootings are CPS students, and all ...

Lax rules, poor oversight let millions of taxpayer dollars be used for foreign travel – including safaris and camel rides – ...

In-person learning for more than 350,000 students resumes Wednesday. More than 350,000 public school students in Chicago are expected to resume in-person learning on Wednesday after a tentative ...