The closures of charter schools have been a pressure point for the newly seated Chicago Board of Education. Some board members are concerned that last week’s vote to keep open five of seven ...

Parents and teachers at Paz, one of two Acero schools closing in June, said officials are not providing transfer options that would keep their entire school community together.

Brittany Kinser is challenging Jill Underly in the April 1 election to be state superintendent. Her career has mostly been in ...

The Chicago Teachers Union expressed alarm this week after a father was arrested by immigration agents Wednesday morning as he was dropping off his kids at a charter school in the Gage Park ...

The move went against Chicago Public Schools officials’ recommendations and received mixed reactions. It capped a week of renewed tumult over the private charter operator’s decision to shutter ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A 15-year-old student was shot outside a Chicago charter high school on the South Side Tuesday morning, Chicago police said. The shooting took place at about 7:41 a.m. in the 8500 ...

Julie Woestehoff  the longtime executive director of Chicago-based Parents United for Responsible Education (PURE), has died.

a charter elementary school in Gage Park, knelt before the Chicago Board of Education and asked them not to close her children’s school. “I am begging you, hear me! . . . Don’t take their ...

Emotions were high Thursday at the CPS Board of Education meeting. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times Share At the end of a contentious and emotional meeting in which parents and children pleaded ...

She is backed by conservatives. Kinser started her career as a special education teacher in Chicago Public Schools before shifting to charter schools. Kinser came to Wisconsin to open a Rocketship ...