While Mayor Brandon Johnson has yet to announce if he’s running for a second term, he still has the backing of one of his ...

The board amended and narrowly passed a roughly $10 billion budget proposal Thursday that assumes the district will receive $150 million more in state funding than projected.

The union embraces political spending tactics the Chicago Teachers Union uses in an effort to further its political goals.

Chicago Public Schools narrowly passed its budget for the coming school year, despite relying on money from unrealized and unallocated tax dollars from the city and state. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Chicago Teachers Union president has been by the mayor's side from the night he was elected, and the trip to the Vatican is no ...

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates is taking a temporary medical leave, according to a union spokesperson, as newly released audit records reviewed by the House Education and Workforce ...

The Illinois Federation of Teachers sued Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas Monday to try to force her to mail property tax ...

Chicago Public School leaders said they plan to lay off 761 teachers and 801 teaching assistants as they unveiled their 2026-27 school year budget.

A Democrat-on-Democrat showdown is erupting over the future of Chicago’s schools. It features a billionaire hedge-fund executive squaring off against the teachers union in a historic pivot for the ...

SCHOOL BRAWL: There’s a political battle brewing ahead of Chicago’s first fully elected school board races — and it’s pitting union leader Stacy Davis Gates against businessman and Democratic donor ...

IFT represents educators in more than 200 districts across Illinois. But teachers’ zip codes dictate how much support they actually get from the union.