Northside Prep, Audubon Elementary named Blue Ribbon Schools
Two Chicago Public Schools were named Blue Ribbon Schools today by the U.S. Department of Education.
Get the full story >>State SAT scores up, but does it matter?
Average SAT scores in Illinois increased across all subjects for the class of 2011, but the improved scores could be due to fewer...
Get the full story >>CPS executive headed for superintendent post in Florida
A Chicago Public Schools executive who was formerly the district's chief administrative officer and more recently the Board of Education's...
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A Chicago Public Schools executive who was once the district's chief administrative officer and was most recently appointed the Board of...
Get the full story >>CPS encouraged by CTU's plans to offer expanded school day proposal
Chicago Public Schools is taking a Chicago Teachers Union offer over longer school days for next year as a positive sign that the union will...
Get the full story >>2 more schools opt for longer days
Two additional schools decided Tuesday to break union ranks and approve a longer day.
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The emergency call came from Minnesota, but it could have come from anywhere in the country. A new mother, at work and away from her baby,...
Get the full story >>Two more CPS schools approve extended day
On Tuesday, two more Chicago schools approved a longer school day for this year.
Get the full story >>Heads of CPS, teachers union debate
The two sides waging a public tug of war over the future of Chicago Public Schools playfully sparred Tuesday night in a live debate over...
Get the full story >>Immigrants hope for deportation reprieves
After he was brought into the U.S. illegally as a 1-year-old, Luis Pedrote did so well in school that he won a President's Education Award...
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Get the full story >>Teachers union files labor complaint in battle over longer day
The Chicago Teachers Union attacked Chicago Public Schools' efforts to lengthen the school day Friday by filing a complaint of unfair labor...
Get the full story >>Going glove to glove with Mayor Emanuel
The woman who once promised a boxing match with Mayor Rahm Emanuel for the rights of teachers and the hearts of Chicago's public school...
Get the full story >>Teachers union accuses CPS of emotional blackmail over longer school day
Mayor Rahm Emanuel and schools CEO Jean-Claude Brizard raised the stakes Tuesday in their effort to add 90 minutes to Chicago's school day...
Get the full story >>CPS gives itself high marks as first-day attendance rises
Chicago Public Schools officials on Wednesday touted an upswing in first-day attendance at most schools this year.
Get the full story >>CPS students to return after summer of controversy
A majority of Chicago's public school children return to school Tuesday, bringing to close an acrimonious summer filled with budget cuts,...
Get the full story >>Another CPS school votes for a longer day
Another Chicago Public School — this time an elementary school in Englewood — has voted to add 90 minutes to their school day.
Get the full story >>CPS says other schools expressing interest in longer day
Chicago Public Schools officials say they've heard from other school principals and teachers interested in expanding their school day, but...
Get the full story >>Debate over longer day rages at N. Side magnet school
Principal Kathleen Hagstrom would love it if Disney Magnet School, one of the best in the city, would vote for an additional 90 minutes on...
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Get the full story >>No changes to CPS admission rules for magnet, selective schools
The Chicago Board of Education passed a multiyear admissions policy for magnet and selective enrollment schools last week, allowing...
Get the full story >>Public high school grads struggle at college
Ariana Taylor thought she was ready for college after taking Advanced Placement physics and English at her Chicago public high school and...
Get the full story >>Brizard, teachers union agree on more rigorous curriculum
After weeks of public feuding over teacher salaries and longer school days, Chicago Public Schools chief Jean-Claude Brizard and the...
Get the full story >>New Trier teachers get salary increases, longer school year
Teachers at New Trier High School will see salary increases, but they will also see the length of the school year increase as part of a...
Get the full story >>CPS budget to be considered Wednesday as teachers union and mayor fight battles
As the Chicago Board of Education prepares to approve a 2011-12 budget Wednesday, school officials and the teachers union are battling...
Get the full story >>Evanston boy, 14, drowns two days before start of high school
Sunday was to be a day of rest and last-minute errands for the Shambee family, whose youngest child, Tristan, was supposed to begin his...
Get the full story >>Principal on carpet for credit card use
The principal at a prominent Near Northwest Side high school is under fire for allegedly racking up nearly $17,000 in charges on overseas...
Get the full story >>CPS sued over teachers pension shortfall
The board that oversees the Chicago Public Schools' teachers pension fund filed a lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on Wednesday alleging...
Get the full story >>Lawsuit accuses security guard of handcuffing first-graders for talking in class
The attorney for a family suing Chicago Public Schools over the alleged handcuffing of a first-grader in 2010 said Tuesday that the boy...
Get the full story >>Multi-year admissions policy for magnet, selective enrollment schools approved
The Chicago Board of Education passed a multi-year admissions policy for magnet and selective enrollment schools Wednesday, allowing changes...
Get the full story >>Fight between CPS, teachers union echoes talk leading up to 1987 strike
Tension was high in Chicago all summer. The teachers union had quarreled with school district leaders over pay raises, the length of the...
Get the full story >>New CPS leaders face red ink, vow 'courageous decisions'
Of all the sad statistics related to the financial crisis at Chicago Public Schools, one of the most alarming is simply this: The school...
Get the full story >>CPS announces two new executives
A principal at a Noble Street Charter school and the executive director of a community-based organization have been tapped to fill two new...
Get the full story >>Red marks on ACT, state test
In the sobering reality of Chicago Public Schools, years of reform efforts have done little to increase the number of high school students...
Get the full story >>Ministers support longer school day
A group of ministers on the West Side has joined in to support the mayor's call for a longer school day.
Get the full story >>Home-work for teachers
New teachers gathered in a gymnasium recently, training for what many never expected would be part of their job description: making house...
Get the full story >>Civic Federation endorses CPS budget but fears future problem
The Civic Federation has thrown its support behind a property tax hike and proposed $5.9 billion budget for Chicago Public Schools in 2011-...
Get the full story >>Teachers union says no to 2 percent raise for longer days
The Chicago Teachers Union has formally rejected a 2 percent pay raise for elementary school teachers in exchange for working longer...
Get the full story >>Academy for Urban School Leadership gets new board chairman
The Academy for Urban School Leadership, which manages teacher training academies in Chicago and oversees efforts to turn around several...
Get the full story >>OMG, what 2 wear? Girls get answers for school style
Back-to-school style this season is all mixed up.
Get the full story >>AUSL announces a replacement for David Vitale
The Academy for Urban School Leadership, which manages several turnaround schools and teacher training academies in Chicago, has announced a...
Get the full story >>Illinois students inch up ACT scores
Illinois' Class of 2011 posted the highest average ACT score in a decade — 20.9 — but the performance fell below the national...
Get the full story >>Ideas for adding math to kids' lives
Use these ideas to instill math skills in young children at home:
Get the full story >>Unused sick days add up to big payouts
A few years into John Butts' superintendent job in DuPage's Lake Park High School District 108, a lucrative perk showed up in his contract:...
Get the full story >>Setting up possible union fight, Emanuel picks new team to helm CPS
Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel pushed ahead with his pledge to reshape Chicago Public Schools on Monday, introducing an executive team led by a...
Get the full story >>Backlogs, leniency on new public records law
Attorney General Lisa Madigan has used her broad new authority over public records disputes to whittle at Illinois' long-standing culture of...
Get the full story >>First-day attendance up at year-round schools
First-day attendance at year-round schools in Chicago is up this year.
Get the full story >>Making the grade — in life — despite long odds
In a public school system where almost half the students don't graduate, Shannon Hastings could have been just another dropout.
Get the full story >>Failing Chicago State students got state financial grants
Potentially hundreds of failing Chicago State University students received state financial aid even though their grades were so low that...
Get the full story >>CPS leadership announced
Veterans of the charter school movement and the turnaround model of school reform are among the people Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel has selected...
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