Four Chicago Public Schools high schools have been ranked among the best in the country, according to a new list from U.S. News & World Report.

Two custodians are dead after a shooting Monday afternoon inside a Garfield Ridge neighborhood elementary school. Mark Twain Elementary principal Matthew Moline confirmed the shooting in a letter to ...

After outcry from board members and staff unions, Chicago Public Schools leaders have upped the district’s projected tax increment financing surplus revenue by $85 million to prevent furloughs. The ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The McLennan County District Attorney’s Office is ending its long-standing partnership with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to represent it in child abuse ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Public Schools says delays in Cook County property tax collections are increasing the district's borrowing costs by tens of millions of dollars as it works to close a budget ...

Chicago Public Schools’ financial woes might be worse than originally thought as the school district says it is a quarter billion dollars short on what it is owed from Cook County – and that’s on top ...

CHICAGO — Hundreds of Chicago Public Schools employees could soon lose their jobs as the district works to close a $732 million deficit. CPS officials have spent months trying to bridge the gap.

Chicago Public Schools leaders unveiled a proposed budget Wednesday with layoffs of 760 teachers and 801 school-based support staff, along with five furlough days, to help close a $732 million deficit ...

Chicago Public Schools officials announced Wednesday that the cash-strapped district would furlough staff for five days that students are not supposed to be in attendance, such as during teacher ...

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Jeramie Bizzle is a web producer for CBS Chicago. Jeramie began working with CBS Chicago as an intern in 2017 and returned as a full-time Web Producer in 2021. He has previously written for the Austin ...