Chicago Public Schools sent layoff notices to 1,458 teachers and other staff Friday due to enrollment shifts, school-specific needs and other programmatic decisions, the school district said. CPS says ...

CPS employs about 600 crossing guards, and close to 90 are getting pink slips. In addition, about 20 guard vacancies are not being filled. It is a cost-cutting move to help close a $730 million ...

Chicago Public Schools Interim CEO Macquline King is set to present a full budget plan Wednesday morning, with the district facing an approximately $734 million budget gap as CPS students return to ...

(WXYZ) — When a child is the victim of abuse or neglect in Michigan, case workers with Children’s Protective Services are the first and sometimes only line of ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson will fill an empty seat on Chicago’s school board before Thursday’s critical budget vote in which he needs the majority of members to commit to covering a controversial municipal ...

Below are the Chicago Public Schools appointees of Mayor Brandon Johnson who (so far) have rejected his demand that the district take on hundreds of millions more in high-cost debt to cover a pension ...

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There’s no room in the budget to cut, we’re told. All education dollars are for the children, we’re told. So why did Chicago Public Schools bankroll a teacher’s $4,700 trip to a Hawaiian luxury resort ...

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