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CARPENTERSVILLE, Ill. — Classes are canceled for more than 20,000 students because of a teacher strike in a suburban Chicago school district.About 1,200 teachers are off the job Tuesday in Community Unit District 300.

The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld a decision to toss a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the state's system of funding public school districts largely through property taxes.The high court issued its unanimous opinion Thursday, agreeing with a lower court ruling.Hundreds of public

Supporters of an elected school board in Chicago say they have new momentum after an advisory measure passed overwhelmingly Tuesday night to end a mayor-appointed board. 

 Today is Election Day, but a group of middle school students in the west suburbs had their say yesterday. That’s because it was debate day in Room 222 at Clarendon Hills Middle School. 

Newly seated CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett says the district is requesting a waiver from the Dec. 1 deadline for announcing school closures set out in state law.

 It’s Halloween and kids are trick-or-treating all up and down Bernard Street in Logan Square.But Christina Roque wants a word with their parents.“This is reminding you that there’s a referendum on the ballot on Tuesday when you vote.

A charter school on the southwest side is teaching teens how to build their own websites and apps.