As early returns in Tuesday’s first school board election signaled an underwhelming performance by the Chicago Teachers Union ...
The proximate cause of the political fracas is a $300 million hole in Chicago Public Schools’ annual budget ... This is ...
Facing a nearly $1 billion deficit next year, Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed a city budget Wednesday that would send roughly ...
Commentary: Mayor Johnson should know better than to “jeopardize the financial health of the school system” in advancing one ...
More than $7 million has been raised to support candidates, much of it used in recent days to fuel a battle between the ...
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson’s handpicked school board president resigned Thursday after coming under fire for social media ...
In Chicago, the mayor and the teachers’ union are tightly connected. The relationship has ushered in generous spending and ...
For the first time in Chicago history, voters this year will get to choose some of the members of the Chicago Board of ...
The Editorial Board met with the mayor for the first time since his election and appreciated the opportunity. Here are our ...
While the deal fell short of some of the union’s biggest goals, it required the district to hire more staff, including social workers and nurses, raise salaries, and commit to lowering class sizes. In ...
On Thursday morning we called for the resignation of the Rev. Mitchell Ikenna Johnson as president of the Chicago Board of ...
The city’s first elections to the school board were disappointing for candidates backed by the Chicago Teachers Union, but ...