Chicago Public Schools

CHICAGO - A Chicago Public Schools office created this year to investigate cases of student-on-student sexual violence has fielded more than 600…

Chicago Public Schools is launching a new department to respond to sex abuse allegations in an effort to reassure parents about their children's safety at…

Republican Governor Bruce Rauner likely considered the upcoming election while crafting the state of the state address he gave Wednesday. There's a host…

A tentative deal on state school funding includes money to pay Chicago teacher pension costs for the first time, Mayor Rahm Emanuel made clear Thursday…

Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner says he's determined to fight a "corrupt political machine in Chicago" and its "special deals" as he seeks a second…

Local school districts would have to pay pension costs for all newly-hired teachers if the General Assembly upholds Governor Bruce Rauner's rewrite of the…

Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan says Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of a school funding bill is choosing "crisis over compromise."Rauner…

About the same time Republican Governor Bruce Rauner received Senate Bill 1 Mon., a trio of Democrats arrived in Peoria to encourage support for it.Rep.…

Illinois Senate President John Cullerton says he will send the governor a bill Mon. that overhauls the way the state distributes money to schools.The bill…

Gov. Bruce Rauner has summoned lawmakers into special session to settle the public education funding issue weeks before the school bell is set to ring.The…