The Chicago Teachers Union is shutting down school choice by attacking charter schools, hurting Black and Latino families who ...

Several school board members raised concerns about closure plans for the South Side charter school, with some continuing ...

The charter school could be the latest in more than a dozen such schools that have closed since 2019 because of enrollment ...

Students at Esmeralda Santiago Elementary School are back in class for the new school year, and community members are speaking out about the future of the school and other Acero charter schools.

CHICAGO - Chicago Public Schools students, teachers and families were in a celebratory mood at a late February meeting when the new hybrid school board voted to keep five Acero Charter schools from ...

Chicago Board of Education members (from left to right) Yesenia Lopez, Ed Bannon, Anusha Thotakura, Michilla Blaise, and Norma Rios-Sierra (at microphones) support a rally organized by parents and ...

Of seven Acero charter school campuses that had been targeted for closure by the network, five will remain open for the 2025-26 school year after a Board of Education vote. That vote took place ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A school community is on edge after administrators said immigration agents detained someone near two charter schools at the start of the school day. Acero Schools said the arrest ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO (WGN) — U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials detained a parent while he was dropping off children at an Acero Charter School in Gage Park on Wednesday morning, according to school ...

Chicago’s Board of Education has approved a revised measure that aims to keep open five of seven Acero charter school campuses that had been slated for closure, after previously directing Chicago ...

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