As distraught parents plead, school board votes to keep Acero charter schools open, despite financial warning
The Chicago school board voted to keep open all of the seven schools slated for closure in the Acero Charter Network through ...
Chicago Board of Education votes to keep 5 Acero charter schools open; some alarmed by ICE arrest near school
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement defended arresting the man who had just dropped off a child at Jovita Idár ...
Former CEO of Indianapolis charter schools defrauded network of nearly $1 million
Former Tindley charter school network CEO Brian Metcalf pleaded guilty to two of the nine counts of wire fraud outlined in an ...
Black History Month: Celebrating the innovators, teachers and legends from Chicago and beyond
CBS Chicago highlights stories that celebrate the theme for Black History Month 2025: African Americans and labor.
Chicago City Council passes Mayor Johnson’s $830 million infrastructure bond plan after pushback
The Chicago City Council narrowly passed a hotly contested $830 million infrastructure bond plan Wednesday backed by Mayor ...
Chicago Public Schools’ Black student success plan hit with federal legal challenge
In a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education, a national group claims the plan is discriminatory, citing efforts by ...
Chalkbeat on MSN1h
Chicago Public Schools is relaunching a program to reel in dropouts
The district is bringing in the Metropolitan Family Services to help relaunch the program and oversee nonprofits that will ...
Forrest Claypool: Chicago is holding itself back from a bright future
“The word bankruptcy has been hanging over Chicago like a storm cloud about to burst,” wrote American Enterprise Institute ...
Chicago Schools’ Bid to Boost Black Student Achievement Draws Legal Challenge
Schools are under scrutiny following President Trump’s moves to limit race-based initiatives.
Deportation threats make schools even more unsafe
Gun violence, school closures — and now, deportation threats. Schools are no longer secure and welcoming spaces for students and families. Who will fight to change that?
Opinion
Editorial: City workers are afterthoughts in Chicago’s bizarre game of pension hot potato
The Municipal Employees‘ Annuity & Benefit Fund of Chicago is not a phrase that exactly trips off the tongue. But the pension plan covering the retirements of a hodgepodge of workers with the city of ...