The battle is heating up between Chicago Public Schools and City Hall over making a pension payment or finalizing new ...

Illinois schools turn to retirees, substitutes, outsourcing & state grants to combat prolonged teacher shortage - “From hiring ...

Dues money collected by local teachers unions rarely stays local. Instead, money flows up to state or national affiliates, ...

Gov. JB Pritzker on Thursday delivered more harsh criticism against President Donald Trump’s administration over attempts to ...

Sweeping layoffs announced this week are part of a dramatic downsizing of the Department of Education. Gov. JB Pritzker ...

Parents and teachers at Paz, one of two Acero schools closing in June, said officials are not providing transfer options that ...

Critics point to the evaluation system as cause for a decline in the number of Black teachers in Chicago Public Schools.

The Chicago Board of Education is poised to vote on an amendment to the district’s 2024-25 budget that accounts for $139 ...

Concern about the funds is growing now that staffing at the agency has been cut by nearly 50% — from 4,133 to 2,183.

President Trump has announced that 1,315 staffers will be laid off from the Department of Education, with the goal of taking ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson’s administration keeps pushing Chicago Public Schools to maintain payments to a pension fund for ...

In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar bill that would have given teachers and school staff at least six weeks of fully ...