Joel Hood

For the third time since December, Earle STEM Elementary School will have a new principal.

New physical education and arts teachers are being hired with $21.5 million in tax increment financing.

CPS says the teachers were fired due to declining student enrollment and the loss of state grant money.

Walter Gresham Elementary parent Anthony Jackson said he had been in touch with CPS officials Monday.

The nation's oldest civil rights organization is investigating whether a school ''turnaround'' was fair.

Catherine Sugure, sister of Ald. Pat O'Connor, was picked by the Gray Elementary Local School Council.

Teachers: New grading system allows students to pass despite missing huge chunks of the school year.

The lack of community boundaries for who can run or vote in Monday's election has led to confusion.

Vernell Slaughter once crunched numbers working at a bank but now breaks them down as a math teacher.

Officials will decide Wednesday if Austin's By The Hand Club for Kids will become a charter school site.

The City Council used an old trick to derail a demand to halt a Board of Education vote on charters.

Ketesha Melendez is the new acting principal at Crispus Attucks Elementary in Bronzeville.

Ald. Toni Foulkes (15th) said she would like to see the former Earle Elementary building reopen.

Conflicting reports put Ketesha Melendez at a Bronzeville school or CPS office in Englewood-Gresham.