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Activists said public pressure prompted the state board to defer any action for a month.

Pilsen Community Academy's Adel Ali refused to detail budget cuts at a Local School Council meeting. 

The Plan Commission tabled a zoning proposal on a new Noble charter high school in Belmont Cragin.

A first-day-of-school fall and other injuries have spurred complaints about the deteriorating playlot.

The addition should be completed by the end of 2015 and will be paid with Tax Increment Finance funds.

"Springfield will step up," said Mayor Rahm Emanuel. "There is no other option."

The projects will be paid for by $24 million in TIF money and completed by fall 2014.

A resolution calling for a city referendum on an elected Board of Education went to the Rules Committee.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus visited Michele Clark Magnet High School.

The school district’s state-mandated plan has "no mission or vision," one activist said.

Overcrowded last year, the magnet school's declining enrollment could mean more budget cuts.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said first-day attendance wasn't the true test of "consolidated" schools.

Principal Myron Hester says he will spend any extra budget money from CPS on teachers.

A proposal to fund and organize a Chicago Public Schools chess program has been ignored for years.

Spared from closure, the elementary school starts a brand new year.