CPS To Layoff Nearly 1,000 Staffers
CPS says this includes the fewest teacher layoffs in 10 years. CPS also delayed its budget release due to the state school funding impasse.
CPS says this includes the fewest teacher layoffs in 10 years. CPS also delayed its budget release due to the state school funding impasse.
Student enrollment in Chicago has been dropping for years but a new twist is expected this fall: declines at mostly Latino high schools.
Chicago principals learned Thursday that an estimated 8,000 fewer students will enroll in the city’s public schools next school year.
Chinatown families are close to getting the local high school they’ve long coveted. But if they win, a black community says it will lose.
Chicago schools made a massive teachers pension payment on Friday that’s been looming over the district all year.
A bill creating an elected school board for Chicago passed both chambers of the General Assembly but won’t become law anytime soon.
The chancellor says the moves save money and will make the schools more student focused, but laid off workers say students could be hurt.
Six high schools in Chicago are testing a new way of teaching students. Critics worry some students could be left behind.
CPS will pay an “extraordinarily high” interest rate on its latest round of borrowing, in part because of risk it may not be able to repay.
A proposal to convert an elementary school into a high school for the booming South Loop is dividing residents.