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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 ...

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 ...

Chicago Public Schools said it’s still working to set a new date for the High School Admissions Test that eighth graders were expecting to take Wednesday. The students encountered confusion and ...