Campaigns to improve first-day attendance this year included ... than the rest of Chicago's public schools. About 65 percent of parents surveyed by America's Research Group said they did not ...

Education in America has always been ... From the earliest colonial days, when education was a privilege for the elite, to ...

This was the first year that school start dates weren’t tethered to the Labor Day holiday. A change in state law meant that Wednesday was the first day districts could start the year.