When 10-year-old Cadence Silas admits she’s bored in class and says the teacher spends too much time trying to control the kids, her dad’s jaw tightens and he looks down for a quick moment. Charles ...

Daisy Maass, an eighth grader at Skinner West, with her mother, Marlene Martin. Daisy opted out of standardized tests this year. Credit: Anjali Pinto “I dream of the day when there aren’t any ...

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Faced with the loss of millions of dollars in funding, Chicago Public Schools on Monday said it has dropped plans to spurn a controversial standardized test, a decision quickly followed by calls from ...

A system crash on a testing platform that Chicago Public Schools uses has upended the plans of thousands of eighth graders in the city who opted to take a standardized test to help determine admission ...