Sarah Karp

The former school board vice president says he doesn’t want to try to keep up with the flood of money from special interest groups and their messaging “that’s completely unrelated to student success.”

Chicago School Board Election 2026: The citywide race for president – Education – Borderless Magazine NFP

CPS’ inspector general reopened an investigation involving a former CPS student and Hilario Dominguez, the teachers union-backed candidate. The woman says she’s looking for accountability. Dominguez denies any wrongdoing and questions why the 2017 allegations resurfaced during a heated race.…

Even with new political considerations, forgoing that tax revenue won’t be an easy decision. Coming into this school year, CPS faced a $730 million deficit.

Students and our journalists are grilling the three candidates for school board president on school closings, the budget deficit and controversies dogging the campaign.

The CPS inspector general’s office concluded its investigation into whether Hilario Dominguez had inappropriate conduct with a minor in 2017. Dominguez said he wants to “re-center” his campaign on education issues voters care about.

Billionaire-backed groups aligned in opposition to the Chicago Teachers Union are aiming their dollars toward attacking the CTU's pick for school board president. But two weeks out, with its large membership, CTU could still make its mark.

The Board of Education unanimously voted to approve the payment Thursday, more than a year after the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ published an investigation into the incessant bullying of the middle school girl and failures by the school administration to curb it.

Chicago's school board president will be directly elected for the first time as more than 30 years of mayoral control ends.

The three candidates for Chicago School Board president want CPS to remain a system of choice, but they diverge on whether the district should rate schools and how parents should weigh their options.