Chicago officials admitted they confused Secret Service agents who showed up at an elementary school to investigate a threat for ICE agents.
The new school accountability dashboards replace the district’s controversial number ratings for schools, which CPS had put on hold.
Many questions remain about what happened at Hamline Elementary when Chicago Public Schools mistook Secret Service agents for immigration enforcement.
Fox News Digital on Saturday spoke with outraged protesters in Chicago, Illinois about the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan, calling it an "instrument of terror."
The district is growing a pilot program in which some campuses serve as centralized pickup and dropoff locations.
The immigration blitz was action long promised by President Donald Trump who made mass deportation central to his campaign.
A recent move by Trump allows immigration authorities to conduct raids at schools. Multiple school districts have pledged to complicate the efforts.
The move to e-learning for some schools in the Chicago area comes after more than 100 schools across the city and the suburbs either closed or moved to online learning due to extreme cold, with wind chills as low as -30.
The Chicago Teachers Union was the biggest spender in Chicago’s first school board elections, which pitted the union against pro-school choice groups as both angled for influence on a new, partly-elected board.
With the TRO against the Board of Education in place, the fired CPS CEO remains in charge of Chicago Public Schools.
Cook County Assessor Fritz Kaegi on Wednesday announced the total value of properties in Chicago topped $50.8 billion in 2024, and said city homeowners will shoulder a slightly smaller share of the overall property tax burden this year if his values hold.
Fired Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Pedro Martinez is seeking to maintain a temporary restraining order to prevent the board from interfering with teacher contract negotiations.