Fox News Digital on Saturday spoke with outraged protesters in Chicago, Illinois about the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan, calling it an "instrument of terror."
The new school accountability dashboards replace the district’s controversial number ratings for schools, which CPS had put on hold.
A recent move by Trump allows immigration authorities to conduct raids at schools. Multiple school districts have pledged to complicate the efforts.
The district is growing a pilot program in which some campuses serve as centralized pickup and dropoff locations.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez said it was all a "misunderstanding" after U.S. Secret Service agents showed up at Hamline Elementary School and were mistaken as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
Chicago Public Schools later admitted their mistake, citing a "misunderstanding," but affirmed that the school system will not coordinate with federal immigration authorities. In front of local ...
Chicago Public Schools officials claimed Friday that federal agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement showed up at an elementary school in the city’s South Side but were blocked by staff from entering.
The move to e-learning for some schools in the Chicago area comes after more than 100 schools across the city and the suburbs either closed or moved to online learning due to extreme cold, with wind chills as low as -30.
The Chicago Teachers Union on Wednesday discussed their next steps in lengthy contract talks with Chicago Public Schools. CPS and CTU have begun fact-finding hearings this week, a required stage in negotiations before the union can legally go on strike.
More than a dozen Chicago-area schools have already announced closures or switches to e-learning for Tuesday as a cold weather advisory for much of Northeastern Illinois and Northwest Indiana continues to grip the region.
With the TRO against the Board of Education in place, the fired CPS CEO remains in charge of Chicago Public Schools.
Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi on Wednesday announced the total value of properties in Chicago topped $50.8 billion in 2024, and said city homeowners will shoulder a slightly smaller share of the overall property tax burden this year if his values hold.