The new school accountability dashboards replace the district’s controversial number ratings for schools, which CPS had put on hold.

The district is growing a pilot program in which some campuses serve as centralized pickup and dropoff locations.

Chicago Public Schools officials claimed Friday that federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed up at an elementary school in the city’s South Side but were blocked by staff from entering.

The move to e-learning for some schools in the Chicago area comes after more than 100 schools across the city and the suburbs either closed or moved to online learning due to extreme cold, with wind chills as low as -30.

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez said it was all a "misunderstanding" after U.S. Secret Service agents showed up at Hamline Elementary School and were mistaken as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

More than a dozen Chicago-area schools have already announced closures or switches to e-learning for Tuesday as a cold weather advisory for much of Northeastern Illinois and Northwest Indiana continues to grip the region.

With the TRO against the Board of Education in place, the fired CPS CEO remains in charge of Chicago Public Schools.

Some moms and families of CPS students who lost their lives to gun violence are still waiting for arrests to be made. Others know suspects are in custody — but it does not make grieving any easier.

Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi on Wednesday announced the total value of properties in Chicago topped $50.8 billion in 2024, and said city homeowners will shoulder a slightly smaller share of the overall property tax burden this year if his values hold.

Fired Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Pedro Martinez is seeking to maintain a temporary restraining order to prevent the board from interfering with teacher contract negotiations.

Several school districts and the Massachusetts attorney general issued guidance on how schools should react if approached by ICE agents.

Illinois’ students in fourth grade scored lower in reading and math on a test known as the ‘nation’s report card’ when compared to their peers in 2022 and 2019. However, eighth graders remained steady or outperformed their peers in 2022,