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Many Chicago Board of Education members agree with community members and want additional revenue from Chicago or Illinois ...
There’s a month to go before the Chicago school board must approve a budget for the coming year, and leaders still are ...
The district said it is still facing a driver shortage, which contributed to reduced busing for students in recent years.
I will not be proposing a property tax increase in my budget,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said Thursday. “I’m going to continue to ...
The Chicago Board of Education is meeting Thursday as Chicago Public Schools faces a more than $700 million budget shortfall ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago School Board meets Thursday to address the district's $734M budget hole. The interim CEO is warning about possible cuts and the need to borrow money. Earlier this week, ...
Chicago Public Schools hosted community forums to hear stakeholders’ ideas on how to solve its budget deficit.
District officials say they expect to save about $165 million after laying off some central office staff and crossing guards ...
Forcing the district deeper into debt is reckless and wrong, writes the chief of policy at Kids First Chicago.
A Department of Education investigation found Chicago Public Schools wrongly obtained $1.1 million by misidentifying South ...
Chicago’s school board president said borrowing is a "viable option" for the district to avoid cuts to classrooms. But with a ...
An educator urges his counter-parts in other cities to draw the lessons from the betrayal in Chicago and wage a ...