Chicago Public Schools

Schools in Auburn Gresham, Chatham and Englewood will get $6 million, mainly for air conditioning.

CTU President Karen Lewis said, "I'm not looking to make anybody's election year easy at all."

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said, "Politics got in the way" of providing students eye care in the past.

The announcement is part of a broader five-year $1.1 billion plan, CPS said.

The  Gladstone Park school wil get  $3.7 million for an eight-classroom modular building.

Canty parents and school officials have been pleading for an annex since 1998.  

Sutherland Elementary named a new principal hours after he wooed parents while wearing his cowboy boots.

Former Principal Mary Kay Cappitelli stepped down in November for health reasons.

The grant will help pay for a 2,500-square-foot playground at the Portage Park magnet school.

Per-pupil funding is down as the school accepts fewer students from outside its neighborhood boundaries.

CPS students are projected to hit an 82 percent high school graduation rate within three years.

The Board of Education voted to submit Gresham, McNair and Dvorak to the turnaround process.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to bring air conditioning to 206 schools, but without explaining funding.

Students and a legal group backed state legislation setting limits on school disciplinary measures.

After announcing another 100 percent college acceptance rate, Urban Prep's founder is ready to grow.