The Chicago Teachers Union spent almost $1.5 million on political activity including lobbying, in the months leading up to a two-week strike in the fall, according to a published report.

Hundreds of students at one Chicago elementary school reportedly called out sick on Thursday, one of the make-up days following October’s Chicago Teachers Union Strike, according to a parent. Jennifer Schaefer, the parent of a daughter who attends Lincoln Elementary in the city’s Lincoln Park neighborhood, said she called the school Thursday and learned 400 students had called out...

A fraction of teachers and school support employees crossed picket lines during the Chicago Public Schools strike earlier this year, according to a published report. Of approximately 32,500 total union employees, 582 employees went to work during the 11-day strike in October, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The newspaper cited records obtained under Illinois public records laws. An average of 93…

The Chicago Board of Education has approved deals with teachers and support staff that ends labor strife that included an 11-day strike. Chicago teachers last week approved the five-year contract deal that includes pay raises, $35 million to enforce limits on class sizes and a pledge to supply each school with a nurse and a social worker.

Chicago teachers on Friday approved the contract deal that ended an 11-day strike and includes pay raises, $35 million to enforce limits on class sizes and a pledge to supply each school with a nurse and a social worker.

Chicago teachers are voting on the tentative contract deal that suspended an 11-day strike. More than half of the Chicago Teachers Union’s elected delegates backed the agreement on Oct. 30, suspending the strike and letting classes resume.

Chicago teachers are voting on the tentative contract deal that suspended an 11-day strike. Sandra Torres reports.

After Chicago Public Schools student athletes watched the Chicago Teacher’s Union strike go on for weeks and then having the IHSA strike policy leaving their state playoff dreams up in the air, the Illinois Appellate court said Thursday that CPS runners will be able to take part in Saturday’s meet.

The Illinois High School Association on Monday appealed a judge’s decision allowing Chicago Public Schools student-athletes to take part in cross country meets, according to court records.

A judge’s ruling allowed CPS runners to participate in sectionals, but now the IHSA is challenging that ruling and trying to keep CPS runners from the state meet. NBC 5’s Christian Farr has more. 

A budget expert told NBC 5 that he believed taxpayers should be concerned about the agreement reached by the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools to end the more than two week-long strike.

As part of their agreement with the Chicago Teachers Union, Chicago Public Schools officials have announced proposed dates for the five instructional days that will need to be made up after the union’s strike.

A judge granted an emergency injunction on Friday evening, which allowed Chicago Public Schools cross country student-athletes to automatically advance to sectional races, nearly a week after a separate judge denied their request to compete in a regional tournament.

Student-athletes in the Chicago Public Schools are filing a lawsuit as they try to get back on the field in time for key state tournaments. NBC 5’s Chris Hush has more. 

 At a news conference Saturday night, Chicago Teachers’ Union President Jesse Sharkey said the strike personally affects his family, including two children who go to Chicago Public Schools. 

The Chicago teachers strike marked its 11th day of canceled classes Thursday, even after a tentative agreement was reached the day before. Sandra Torres reports. 

A budget expert told NBC 5 on Friday that Chicago taxpayers would feel the effects of the deal reached to end the Chicago teachers’ strike. NBC 5’s Mary Ann Ahern reports. 

Chicago teachers and more than 300,000 students affected by an 11-day strike returned to classrooms Friday amid a tentative agreement that ended the walkout and is expected to shape education in the nation’s third-largest city for the next five years.