CPS

CPS teachers are failing miserably in their mission. Maybe they should not be rewarded with more money, more posh positions, and all other sorts of treats.

National School Choice Week (NSCW), an annual event that celebrates education choice, has been smashing attendance records year after year.

A new report published by the Manhattan Institute warns us of an impending crisis: In the coming years, taxpayers will continue to be taxed more heavily to pay for teachers’ retirements, teacher pension debt will keep growing, and children will suffer for it.

The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU), Chicago Public Schools (CPS), and Mayor Rahm Emmanuel’s administration reached a tentative agreement to avert what would have been the second teachers strike in Chicago in four years.

In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Project Manager for Education Lennie Jarratt and Policy Analyst Tim Benson join Host Donald Kendal to discuss the recently released report by the Inspector General of the Chicago Board of Education. The report showed a disturbing pattern of corruption throughout the system.

Watch Bruno Behrend debate Chicago Public School Principal Troy LaRaviere on the topic, “Public or private? What should be the future of public education in Chicago?” The debate was held…

On July 25, Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Bruno Behrend took part in the famous “Bughouse Square Debate”  before an audience of 500 people in Washington Square Park in the North…

Critics of the Parent Trigger for school reform charge it’s a new idea with a short track record. But the concept seems to be Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s battle plan…

There may be a simple explanation for why the vast majority of fourth and eighth graders in the Chicago Public Schools can’t read or do math at grade level – though there…

Let’s be honest, if politically incorrect. In the 1960s, most high-achieving female college graduates became teachers, largely because they had few other career choices. By 2000, almost none of them…