The first official elected Chicago school board meeting focused on protecting Chicago Public School students from ICE, and a plea from the CPS CEO to undocumented parents.
In Chicago Public Schools, which has received thousands of migrant students in recent years, schools are training staff and families on their rights and grappling with how to convince their communities that schools are safe.
The immigration blitz was action long promised by President Donald Trump who made mass deportation central to his campaign.
The new school accountability dashboards replace the district’s controversial number ratings for schools, which CPS had put on hold.
The district is growing a pilot program in which some campuses serve as centralized pickup and dropoff locations.
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.
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 Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools entered the “fact finding” phase of negotiations in January 2025. Here’s what that means, whether Chicago students might be out of class, when and what it all could do to taxpayers.
Large school districts across the U.S. have vowed to try to protect undocumented immigrant students and their families from Trump's mass deportation push.
Some moms and families of CPS students who lost their lives to gun violence are still waiting for arrests to be made. Others know suspects are in custody — but it does not make grieving any easier.
Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez said it was all a "misunderstanding" after U.S. Secret Service agents showed up at Hamline Elementary School and were mistaken as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.