Login
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • sign up today!

Education

Despite closings and budget cuts, CPS calls for new charter schools

State finance authority moves to assist Chicago optometry school

The Illinois Finance Authority Board approved on Tuesday the refinancing of $42 million in loans for the Illinois College of Optometry’s 366,000-square-foot campus on Chicago’s Near South Side.

Pioneer behind COD radio station retires

Moody’s downgrades debt for 7 public Illinois universities

How cheap money is helping Loyola expand

CPS officials square off with aldermen over district budget

Members of the City Council Committee on Education assailed officials from the Chicago Public Schools on Friday for what they argued was a lack of transparency in the school district's proposed fiscal year 2014 budget.

The $5.6 billion budget, which includes at least $68 million in cuts to classroom instruction, is expected to win Board of Education approval at the Board’s Aug. 28 meeting.

New initiative to provide more pre-K slots for Chicago children

Map: CPS Safe Passage routes

College students lay out fiscal facts for teens

Security on new school routes still in flux, with just weeks to go

Pages