Updated story The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close fifty Chicago Public schools, one of them delayed a year, in the nation's thi...

Amid the chaos of three days of protests regarding Chicago school closures, a pint-size public speaking star was born. Nine-year-old Asean Johnson ...

UPDATE: The CPS board voted Wednesday afternoon to close 50 schools -- 49 elementary schools and one high school. By Mary Wisniewski ...

The Chicago Teachers Union will wrap its three-day march in protests of Chicago Public School closings with a Monday afternoon rally in Daley Plaza. ...

Story by Mark Konkol, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago: CHICAGO — Some Chicago Public Schools slated to close this fall as part of the largest school con...

With the Chicago Board of Education set to vote in a week on closing 54 of the city's public schools and co-locating 11 others, the Chicago Teachers U...

With a little more than a week left before the Chicago Board of Education votes on proposals to close 54 Chicago public schools and co-locate 11 more,...

Independent hearing officers tasked with reviewing Chicago Public Schools' list of 54 slated closings are opposing 14 of the proposed shutterings sayi...

Story by Wendell Hutson, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago: ENGLEWOOD — A South Side nonprofit fighting to keep Elihu Yale Elementary School open has prop...

As the saying goes, the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. Unfortunately, that saying does not bode well for the thousands of children who will be displaced when 54 schools shut down this year.

On a day they were slated to take a state-required test that directly affects their graduation eligibility, around 100 Chicago Public School students ...

Story by Tanveer Ali, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago: CHICAGO — Student enrollment at several Chicago Public Schools could balloon over capacity if the...

CHICAGO -- The Rev. Robin Hood stands in front of an elementary school in what's known as "The Holy City" – the Chicago neighborhood where the n...

While the traditional model looks at individual problems across a wide breadth of communities, this new model works in reverse: applying a wide breadth of solutions to an individual community.

Question: When is a Chicago elementary school with 23 kids in a classroom not considered by Mayor Rahm Emanuel to be an "underutilized" school? Answer: When it's his kids' school.

Story by Erica Demarest, courtesy DNAinfo Chicago: NEAR WEST SIDE — Many concerns and questions, but no answers. That’s how it went for parents...

Zeke Emanuel, the oldest brother of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, offered simple advice to the Chicago Teachers Union Wednesday. If you're fighting his ...

I suspect that these "reformers," secure in their ignorance of urban realities, still believe that their opponents are to blame. Had educators welcomed enough rookies willing to gut it out and to "put children first," the short term pain they dumped on neighborhood schools would have produced transformational gain.

Scores of protesters carrying pro-school and anti-mayor slogans poured into the Loop late Wednesday afternoon to oppose the Chicago Public School's pl...

Yes, now is the time to choose our future, so let us choose one that transcends the insanity and sheer stupidity of violent behavior. This requires personal empowerment. It also requires collective empowerment.

Updated story A throng of protestors, police and media descended on Daley Plaza Wednesday, kicking off what are expected to be several weeks of dem...

On many educational issues, Chicagoans aren't buying what the business-minded school reformers are selling. The future of public education, and by extension the future of the city, continues to be fiercely contested territory.

By Renita D. Young CHICAGO, March 26 (Reuters) - Nanette Fouch does not understand why her granddaughter may have to transfer from a ...

Almost two years ago, the city of Chicago rallied to help save the music program of a West Humboldt Park public school -- and today, that same school ...

CHICAGO -- Mayor Rahm Emanuel responded Saturday to widespread criticism of his plan to close 54 Chicago Public Schools, saying he wasn't interested i...