CHICAGO (WLS) -- Students in Chicago are slated to start the new school year in just one month, but school officials say they are still trying to finalize their remote learning plan. Earlier this week ...

CPS classes for K-12 students in the 2026-27 academic year will begin Aug. 24 and end June 11. The following year, they’ll ...

For show-and-tell Friday, Genevieve Billingsley handed her granddaughter, Alaina, a green and yellow ukulele. The 5-year-old picked at the strings in front of her iPad as she sat on the sofa in her ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- More than 350,0000 Chicago Public School students returned to learning Tuesday. Mayor Lori Lightfoot and CPS CEO Dr. Janice Jackson visited the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy of ...

When Chicago public schools formally begin remote learning next week after shutting down nearly a month ago, Lee Elementary School principal Lisa Epstein is expecting her teachers to pick up where ...

Opinion: A single test score should not define CPS students' learning.

At the start of her son’s first grade year at Chicago’s Hope Learning Academy last fall, Dequisha Johnson felt that her prayers had been answered. Johnson, 29, had been preparing him for preschool ...

Principals and district officials developed strategies to help schools respond to an unprecedented situation. Will that playbook work if federal agents return in force?

As the city braces for intensified immigration enforcement and the possible arrival of the National Guard, Chicago Public Schools officials continue to stress that school is the safest place for ...