For months, prominent Chicagoans in for-profit commerce and nonprofit governance, Democrats all, have fretted and shaken their heads as Mayor Brandon Johnson lurched from one crisis to another. So far ...

CEO Pedro Martinez of Chicago Public Schools refuses to resign amid tensions and denies any plans to close schools, proposing ...

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan promoted free school lunch, served on the Minneapolis school board and was Tim Walz's ...

Activist Aaron ‘Jitu’ Brown is the only candidate on the ballot in District 5. But attorney Jousef Shkoukani, and retired ...

Kasher has perfected one of the most controversial aspects of contemporary stand-up comedy: Crowd work. In Chicago, we call this improvisation. We claim it as a local export. Stand-up comedy, though, ...

The house of delegates of the Chicago Teachers Union issued a no confidence vote for Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro ...

Times, WBEZ and Chalkbeat asked every candidate for Chicago’s first elected school board a series of questions about their ...

The Chicago Teachers Union has accused Chicago Public Schools leadership of plotting potential mass school closures, while ...

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson asked Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez to resign from his position during a meeting ...

Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez will submit the district's Five-Year Strategic Plan for vote by the Chicago Board ...

The numbers have improved, but nearly half of all schools still have only one art teacher, and some of those positions aren’t ...

The Chicago Public Schools have released their long-awaited five-year plan ahead of a school board vote this Wednesday. The ...