A recent Chicago Tribune poll showed that Chicago is becoming more and more unhappy with Mayor Rahm Emanuel. Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis...
A bizarre video of Chicago public school teachers seemingly being addressed as though they were young children in a professional development training session has...
I hated the way Reverend Jeremiah Wright was treated during the 2008 presidential campaign.
Republicans used him as another means of fueling white racial fears...
The Chicago Public School district will now pay triple the amount it originally budgeted to board up buildings it shuttered during this year's massive...
Teach for America wants people to know that its recruits will not replace laid off Chicago Public School teachers. Amid allegations that TFA recruits could replace some of the 1,036 teachers that have recently been laid off due to budgetary shortfalls, the executive director for the group's Chicago region is speaking out to clear up some ...
In Sunday remarks, Mayor Rahm Emanuel again defended the just-announced laying off of more than 2,100 Chicago Public Schools employees, almost 1,000 of them teachers, as unavoidable thanks to both the state of Illinois' pension funding crisis and the city's lowered bond rating. The layoffs, the mayor said, were "avoidable in a sense" had the ...
The Chicago Public School district is slashing more than 2,100 employees, nearly 1,000 of them teachers, in the largest layoff of district employees in...
A federal judge on Tuesday will hear testimony in the opening day of an injunction hearing aimed at halting the closure of 50 Chicago public schools. The hearing, according to the Associated Press, could last as long as three days, though a ruling is not expected yet this week or even this month. If U.S. District Judge John Lee allows the case to ...
Charter Parents United and its supporters rallied in big numbers Wednesday, May 8, 2013 in downtown Chicago near the Chicago Public Schools headquarters. The...
U.S. Reps. Bobby Rush, D-1st Dist., left, and Danny Davis, D-7th Dist., listened as parents, community residents, members of advocacy groups and others addressed...
