A Chicago elementary school student named Zach Favors organized a clean-up event at Crescent Park on the far South Side, where he and other volunteers collected trash and helped beautify the ...

CHICAGO - Chicago Public Schools this week announced it is laying off more than 1,400 workers to adjust for enrollment and programming changes. The district confirmed that the layoffs of 1,458 ...

As the Trump administration’s illegal funding freeze triggers a nationwide cuts to public schools, the Democrats and union ...

That’s especially pertinent now as the Chicago Public School system is once again faced with the challenges of declining enrollment, as spelled out in a comprehensive Civic Federation assessment ...

Pedro Martinez, fired CEO leader of Chicago Public Schools, will be Mass. K-12 school commissioner Martinez also served as a superintendent in Nevada and San Antonio, as well as a chief financial ...

Beth Swanson is CEO of A Better Chicago. Sendhil Revuluri is a former vice president for the Chicago Board of Education. Joe Ferguson, president of the Civic Federation, also supports this op-ed.

The Civic Federation also points out that state legislation remains on the books for the activation of a Chicago School Finance Authority, a legacy of the 1979 financial crisis in the district.

The Civic Federation of Chicago, the local budget watchdog, is warning that finances are so bad in Chicago Public Schools, that the State of Illinois may need to take control of the school system. The ...

The budget watchdog group said CPS' finances are in such bad shape that the State of Illinois may need to take control of the school district.

Chicago Public Schools, or CPS, is perched on a financial cliff, and a state financial takeover is an option, according to a Civic Federation report.

The Civic Federation warned of dire consequences if this troubling period is mishandled, even as the financial picture for Chicago Public Schools is better than it was a decade ago.