Chicago public schools face enrollment crisis with 150 half-empty schools, costing up to $93,000 per student in some cases, as the district lost 70,000 students over the past decade.

Declining school enrollment has left 30% of Chicago public schools at least half-empty. The city’s failure to address this problem has come at a high cost to the district — and its students.

Nearly two dozen students at a single Chicago high school got a perfect score on the ACT. The 23 teenagers — nearly 5% of the junior class at Whitney Young Magnet High School — were honored in ...

The Chicago School is spending about $48 million in construction costs, and the expected economic impact over 10 years is projected to be $1 billion, with $4.8 million in taxes, according to Nealon.

Students in the hallway at Alain Locke Charter School on Jan. 23, 2014. Alain Locke was among the 16 charter school contracts that the Chicago Board of Education voted to renew Thursday. (E.

Outgoing Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez attended his last school board meeting Thursday night as board members consider renewals for some of the city's charter schools.

The buildout of Chicago's first new medical school in nearly 100 years, The Chicago School's Illinois College of Osteopathic Medicine, is moving toward occupancy at the former Tyson Foods building ...

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) officials are debating whether their grading policy is too lenient, with one principal arguing that leniency in grading won’t translate into success in the real ...

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Chicago Public Schools lays off hundreds of tutors before CPS school year ends CPS officials credit an influx of tutors in part with post-pandemic academic recovery. But, facing a budget deficit ...

This comes as the school district faces a $730 million budget deficit. Chicago Public Schools officials say the changes are not about reducing costs but about doing right by students.

Cardinal Robert Prevost, a Chicago-area native and former substitute teacher at St. Rita High School, has become the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church.