CPS

Get ready for more CPS students during rush hour after many school start times are pushed back to 9 a.m.

Ghian Foreman has promised to include the community in plans to reuse the school.

Lane Tech was one of several dozen schools given a later start time, but found a work-around.

The principal of the prestigious selective-enrollment high school wants to meet with top CPS leaders.

"We're all fighting for scraps," said Hearst Elementary teacher Rachel Davies.

Chicago Public Schools are changing bell schedules to cut costs.

Mary Hughes believes special-needs students should remain in the same school through eighth grade.

Most Little Village schools will see enrollment drops next year, according to Chicago Public Schools.

Announcement of the new start times come less than two months before school starts.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel also named Frank Clark to replace David Vitale as head of the Board of Education.

Charles Grode, a Chicago Symphony Orchestra leader, will now head the non-profit music school.

Hit the hardest was McCutcheon Elementary School, losing more than $600,000, a 20.66 percent decrease.

Neighborhood schools will see $60 million in cuts, while charter schools see $30 million in gains.

Ald. Will Burns, chairman of the committee, said some testimony left everyone "thoroughly depressed."

One teacher said Mayor Rahm Emanuel "is deeply embedded in Novocaine" and "doesn't feel the pain."