Several Chicago school board members requested that outside experts opine on the school district’s budget woes at the first ...

His remarks came just two days after the agency abruptly laid off 1,300 employees, or about half its workforce, including an estimated 50 workers in its Chicago regional office.

With nearly half of the federal employees from the U.S. Department of Education laid off this week and the Trump ...

More questions than answers came out of Thursday's Chicago Board of Education hearing, the first of two to discuss how Chicago Public Schools plans to pay for several pending obligations.

Five years after the global Covid pandemic was declared, there is widespread agreement that closing classrooms was ...

Sweeping layoffs announced this week are part of a dramatic downsizing of the Department of Education. Gov. JB Pritzker addressed the cuts at an education conference.

Parents and teachers at Paz, one of two Acero schools closing in June, said officials are not providing transfer options that ...

The Chicago Board of Education is poised to vote on an amendment to the district’s 2024-25 budget that accounts for $139 ...

The funding feud between Chicago Public Schools and the mayor's office over a $175 million pension payment is heating up.

At least 50 staffers were fired in Chicago or pushed out, including the entire Office for Civil Rights. The layoffs are part ...

Concern about the funds is growing now that staffing at the agency has been cut by nearly 50% — from 4,133 to 2,183.

The union representing teachers outside of Chicago says President Donald Trump administration’s cuts to the U.S. Department ...