The district’s proposed changes would allow a student who scores in the top 10% of their grade on state tests to be eligible to apply for skipping a grade or taking accelerated math and reading.

Jen Sabella, the Director of Strategy and co-founder of Block Club Chicago, joins Bob Sirott to share the latest Chicago ...

Specializing in test prep and academic support, Chicago Home Tutor offers personalized in-home and online tutoring to help Chicago students excel in top-tier school admissions. As the October High ...

Declining school enrollment has left 30% of Chicago public schools at least half-empty. The city’s failure to address this ...

Five Chicago high schools were named among the best in the country by U.S. News and World Report for 2024, NBC Chicago’s Charlie Wojciechowski reports.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago's Teachers Union and Mayor Brandon Johnson are at odds with state lawmakers over a bill introduced to protect selective enrollment schools until a fully elected school ...

Joe Gondolfi, a high school teacher for Chicago Public Schools, said he’s long been puzzled by the students and parents who seem obsessed with selective enrollment high schools. These public ...

In Chicago, for example, more than half of the students currently enrolled in the district’s 11 selective high schools are low-income, and almost 70 percent are Black or Hispanic.

Consider Brooks College Preparatory Academy. At this selective public high school in Chicago, 79.3 percent of students are black, and 46.6 percent of students are Hispanic. Of Brooks’s black students, ...

US Chicago mayor under fire for new move toward equity in public schools: 'A facade of morality' Brandon Johnson accused of breaking campaign promise on 'selective enrollment' for high-performing ...