CBS News Chicago asked candidates to share their views on four key issues facing the next board when all members are sworn in ...

CPS CEO Pedro Martinez and Johnson disagree about how to close a roughly $300 million expected deficit for this school year. Chicago held its first-ever school board election to choose 10 members ...

The school district has struggled to provide busing for students who have traditionally gotten it. Because it's legally ...

Martinez has trumpeted that request since first airing it publicly last week. The CPS CEO called on Johnson in April to declare a widely expanded TIF surplus, he told the Tribune last Wednesday.

Embattled CPS CEO Pedro Martinez and other CPS leaders spoke with dozens of students following classroom visits at Prosser Career Academy in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood. CPS submitted its Five ...

Mayor Brandon Johnson proposed a record tax increment financing surplus for a second consecutive year. But that’s far less ...

CPS CEO Pedro Martinez spoke before councilmembers in an Education Committee hearing to discuss the district's budget. Taylor said the hearing is not about Martinez, but instead about getting ...

Embattled CPS CEO Pedro Martinez fielded questions from City Council members for more than an hour on a variety of topics related to the state of schools, the district’s budget and his plans for ...

A Chicago elementary school now bears the name of late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...

Ald. Jason Ervin, 28th, pressed Martinez on the size of the surplus from tax-increment financing districts CPS would need to reach the $484 million he's asking of the city. When the city sweeps ...

and take out the loan Johnson wants CPS to take out. The mayor does not have the power to fire Martinez himself. Ultimately, the school board makes the final call on firing its CEO, but the board ...

At a hearing Wednesday, City Council members admonished Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro ... former CPS CEOs whose decisions she said contributed to the current shortfall. Martinez said CPS ...