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Just 30% of CPS graduates in the study who immediately went on to bachelor’s degree-granting universities graduated in four years. The six-year graduation rate was more than 20 percentage points higher at 51%.

More than 3 million U.S. children were involved in an intervention for suspected abuse or neglect in a single year. Advocates say a disproportionate impact on families of color makes reform urgent.

A day at Blackburn magistrates court highlights the confusion after closures in Blackpool and Preston

As part of a shift in civics education, CPS is moving beyond facts and dates and toward helping students experience what it is like to create change.

CPS discourages civics tests based on rote memorization. Try a quiz using that approach — and see what schools are doing now instead.

A team of app developers looking to ease college and career searches and a 9th-grade debater hoping to bridge policy and people were among the students honored. “You will help us all build a better, stronger and much-safer Chicago,” Mayor Brandon Johnson said.

Having to stand before a judge and explain why a child is not regularly attending school is a great deterrent to chronic school absenteeism, a retired police officer writes.

Gambling giant Entain reaches deal over past practice at company it owned in Turkey

Even prestigious schools like Northside College Prep and Payton College Prep have unacceptable chronic absenteeism of 25%, according to the Illinois Report Card.

The ‘high-risk’ prisoner was left unsupervised for significant periods of time and was able to take his own life.

Three districts in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan together contribute to 80% of India’s opium production. Already facing the problem of stagnant procurement rates and rising input prices, farmers are now angry with the Union government for opening opium production and processing to private players. A.M. Jigeesh talks to farmers in…