Chicago Public Schools failed to enforce its mandatory furlough policy last school year, costing the cash-strapped district at least $460,000 when nearly 400 employees — principals, assistant principals and central office staff — did not take the require

Last year, parents, students, and community activists occupied the fieldhouse of Whittier Elementary School, located at 1900 West 23rd Street in Pilsen on the South Side of Chicago when the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system planned to demolish it and l

The only miracle emerging from the past decade of Chicago's corporate-style school reform is that former CEO and current Sec. of Education Arne Duncan hasn't resigned from either posts out of sheer embarrassment. The latest results from the National Asse

Chicago Public Schools finally showed some real progress in reading on national test results released Wednesday, but only compared to how its students fared at least seven years ago. A new report on the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress ta