CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago Public Schools and Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced Pedro Martinez as its new CEO Wednesday. Under clear blue sunny skies, the 51-year-old Martinez stepped onto the Benito ...

Late last year, Mayor Brandon Johnson's handpicked school board fired Martinez without cause — but he remained on the job the last six months, as dictated by his contract. Chicago Tonight is available ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- On Monday, Chicago Public Schools parents Kelley Escamilla and her husband gave their 3rd and 6th graders a choice: Go to school and wear a mask or don't. They didn't wear masks and ...

Several top Chicago Public Schools staff members have left the district following the departure of former schools chief Pedro Martinez. The five exiting officials include the district’s chiefs of ...

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CHICAGO (WGN) — Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez returned to his high school alma mater for an 8th grade graduation ceremony on Tuesday, the same place where four years earlier Mayor Lori ...

The CPS board has narrowed the search to two finalists, excluding interim CEO Macquline King, WBEZ/Sun-Times report.

The board chose the finalists in a closed session last week. Those candidates will be put through a series of interviews on Monday with a community panel and Mayor Brandon Johnson.

Below are the Chicago Public Schools appointees of Mayor Brandon Johnson who (so far) have rejected his demand that the district take on hundreds of millions more in high-cost debt to cover a pension ...

Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates made the case Monday for the school district to borrow funds to address a $529 million budget deficit. She cast the decision as one that would show ...