Alex Mayer, the new Secretary of the Department of Human Services, said he agreed it’s not ideal for foster kids to be placed in hotels. The average length of a foster child’s stay in a hotel room is ...

A Kanawha County judge is trying to change a longstanding problem within the West Virginia Department of Human Services and the CPS system. For years, CPS workers have ...

As part of the plan, the diesel-fueled generators will stay in San Antonio for up to two years and customers connected to the ...

The second phase of Chicago Public Schools' hub stop busing program is underway and has served hundreds of students so far.

Gun violence, school closures — and now, deportation threats. Schools are no longer secure and welcoming spaces for students and families. Who will fight to change that?

The district is bringing in the Metropolitan Family Services to help relaunch the program and oversee nonprofits that will ...

A Chicago non-profit received $25 million in funding Thursday to lead a previously discontinued violence-prevention program ...

The Chicgao Public Schools board voted Thursday to approve an amended plan to keep five Acero schools open next school year. Two Acero schools, Paz and Cruz, will close at the end of this year.

A School Board vote in December had spared seven Acero schools from closure for a year and promised to absorb five of them in ...

Columbia Public Schools made an internal hire -- a recent addition to the district -- the new superintendent Thursday. Jeff Klein, the current chief academic officer at CPS, will be the head of the ...

Many undocumented families describe their lives as living in the shadows since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. Mixed-status families who have called Chicago home for decades are ...

The Chicago school board voted to keep open all of the seven schools slated for closure in the Acero Charter Network through ...