CPS

In some cases, CPS allowed the students to continue at the schools, according to a new watchdog report.

CPS students won't have their first day of winter break until Christmas Eve, according to the schedule.

The year began with Mayor Rahm Emanuel in the first mayoral runoff and only went downhill from there.

The Chicago Teachers Union easily met a threshold that 75 percent of its membership authorize a strike.

The Chicago Teachers Union is voting Wednesday to Friday to authorize a strike.

The union said CPS wants a pay freeze, $653 million in concessions, larger classes and school closings.

Civics students at Roosevelt are demanding better food and more options from food service giant Aramark.

The deadline for CPS selective enrollment high schools and elementary schools and magnets is Dec. 11.

Chicago Public Schools principals want lawmakers to end their stalemate over the budget.

The Chicago Teachers Union will take a vote to authorize a strike next week.

"I am comfortable with who I am," Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a sometimes testy interview with Politico.

CEO Forrest Claypool said CPS has 20 percent of state students, but gets 15 percent of school funding.

Budget cuts force parents of students in band and orchestra to pay for "the most basic of needs."

The Chicago Teachers Union released the results of the vote Monday.  

But Burke has since told elections officials the donation was "misplaced" and never made it to the bank.