Chicago Forward 2026: A pro-growth plan to end city budget deficits

By Ravi Mishra, Lauren Zuar

10/13/2025

Chicago’s $1.15 billion projected budget gap is the latest in a decades-long string of structural deficits. Making Chicago’s high taxes worse is not the solution.

Chicago Teachers Union undermines yet another charter school

By Hannah Schmid

10/09/2025

The Chicago Teachers Union’s attacks on charter schools are to blame for the upcoming closure of the Chicago High School for the Arts.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Teachers union strike threats as school starts is an unfair tactic

By Lilly Rossi

10/07/2025

At least three Illinois teachers unions threatened to strike at the start of this school year. Keeping students out of class so unions can get their way should be illegal in Illinois.

TAGS: public schools, teachers union

Record high: Chicago Teachers Union 2X political spending

By Mailee Smith

10/02/2025

The Chicago Teachers Union spent millions on failed school board candidates in its 2025 fiscal year. Not even 18% of its spending was on representing teachers.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Illinois superintendent pay doesn’t match performance: district consolidation could help

By Lilly Rossi

10/01/2025

Superintendent salaries often do not reflect the district’s size, wealth or student performance. School district consolidation could help fix that.

Chicago Public Schools lose 9,000 students

By Hannah Schmid

09/30/2025

There are 9,081 fewer students enrolled in Chicago Public Schools, driven by declines in Black and Hispanic students. The big drop ends a blip in annual enrollment declines.

TAGS: CPS: Chicago Public Schools

Vallas: Stacy Davis Gates’ destructive vision for Chicago schools

By Paul Vallas

09/26/2025

The Chicago Teachers Union is shutting down school choice by attacking charter schools, hurting Black and Latino families who rely on them. Their actions put power over student success.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union, Stacy Davis Gates

Tinley Park teachers union may strike Sept. 22

By Lilly Rossi

09/12/2025

District 146 Educators Council has voted to authorize a strike. If an agreement is not reached, teachers in Tinley Park could strike as soon as Sept. 22.

TAGS: teachers union

Romeoville, Bolingbrook teachers union sets Sept. 18 strike date

By Lilly Rossi

09/10/2025

Teachers in the 10th-largest school district in Illinois may be on the picket lines instead of in classrooms with students on Sept. 18. Romeoville and Bolingbrook teachers are paid more than the state average but are pushing for more.

TAGS: teachers union

Chicago Teachers Union president claims Southern Illinois takes more than it makes

By Lilly Rossi

09/08/2025

The Chicago Teachers Union exerts power not only over the city of Chicago, but also statewide. Southern Illinois schools and their funding is the target of CTU leaders’ latest attack.

TAGS: CTU: Chicago Teachers Union

Chicago Public Schools

Chicago Forward 2026: A pro-growth plan to end city budget deficits

Chicago Teachers Union undermines yet another charter school

Teachers union strike threats as school starts is an unfair tactic

Record high: Chicago Teachers Union 2X political spending

Illinois superintendent pay doesn’t match performance: district consolidation could help

Chicago Public Schools lose 9,000 students

Vallas: Stacy Davis Gates’ destructive vision for Chicago schools

Tinley Park teachers union may strike Sept. 22

Romeoville, Bolingbrook teachers union sets Sept. 18 strike date

Chicago Teachers Union president claims Southern Illinois takes more than it makes

Pathway to a Profession: How Apprenticeships Could Reshape Illinois’ Beauty Service Industry

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