CPS is grappling with a $734 million deficit. Board members say schools across Illinois are facing budget troubles and need ...

Chicago Public Schools officials have yet to identify a solution for its looming $734 million deficit, as the August deadline approaches.

A Department of Education investigation found Chicago Public Schools wrongly obtained $1.1 million by misidentifying South ...

Teachers in Chicago and nationwide are “walking in” Monday because Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funds, a lifeline of educational funding created during the pandemic, are ...

The office also investigated a school where clerks mislabeled income information for at least 90 students, resulting in an influx of unwarranted additional funding for that campus.

"I feel like there's a disconnect between the students, the parents, the staff, and the teachers, as well as the community." ...

Chicago’s school funding disaster just got a lot worse August 1, 2017 Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner (R) at a news conference on July 26, the first day of a special session on education funding at ...

Chicago Public Schools’ budget for next fall includes more money for special education and schools in high-need areas, and extra funding for teacher pay raises.

But opponents must hold fast to one stipulation in return for their blank check on funding: For the City of Chicago, those dollars will no longer be attached to the Chicago Public Schools (CPS).

Chicago schools will remain closed Wednesday, as more than 32,000 teachers and staff continue to strike for a fifth school day, fighting for education funding and calling on the city to take on ...

“It’s time to end this radically discriminatory funding system that violates the civil rights of our children. It is racial discrimination in its purest form.” That is not a statement out of ...