Financial problems are piling up at Chicago Public Schools, amid the district’s growing budget deficit and more cuts from the ...

Chicago Public Schools issued layoff notices to 1,458 staff due to enrollment changes, not the $734 million deficit.

Ferguson says the report is a reality check for CPS' new hybrid-elected school board: 21 members will be sworn in on Wednesday. Ferguson warns the board the financial situation is so serious, a ...

What CPS revealed Wednesday is more of a “tactical document for negotiation” that doesn’t allow principals, schools, and parents to “begin to plan for the coming school year,” Ferguson said.

But, the Civic Federation says the new school board must right-size personnel, especially when the majority of CPS schools are under-enrolled. Ferguson says CPS spends $93,000 per student a year ...

Could Mayor Johnson be poised to oust CPS CEO Pedro Martinez? 03:02. CHICAGO (CBS) -- The school year for the Chicago Public Schools began Monday amid a sweltering heat wave, as questions ...

Chicago Public Schools is teetering on the brink of the financial abyss, one that threatens to unravel the recent progress families and educators have fought so hard to achieve. The system is ...

Bernhard Moos Elementary School in 2022. Chicago Public Schools' newly elected hybrid board met last week to debate an amended 2025 budget. Mayor Brandon Johnson's finance team wants the Chicago ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- The new hybrid Chicago Board of Education will be officially seated on Wednesday—amid heated contract talks between the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Teachers Union ...

CPS will rename three elementary schools named for controversial figures including U.S. President James Monroe, Supreme Court Justice Melville Fuller and Christopher Columbus.