The CPS school board is expected to approve the contract of Macquline King as the new CEO after coming back from a short recess. Key US ally blocks airspace to military flights over Iran, escalating ...

Macquline King was a young principal working hard at a small South Side elementary when she got word that her school was slated to close. Teacher Claire Brandon remembers watching King fight to keep ...

The Chicago Board of Education will vote on Monday to appoint Macquline King as the permanent leader of Chicago Public Schools, catapulting a Black woman with homegrown talent to the district’s top ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- A product of Chicago Public Schools, Macquline King is poised to become the district's next leader. She wasn't on top of school board members' lists a few months ago, but many say she ...

Members of the Chicago Board of Education were expected Monday officially to approve the appointment of a new chief executive officer for Chicago Public Schools. The board conducted a search that ...

The Chicago School Board voted to make the interim CEO the permanent head of CPS. The board approved Macquline King’s contract Monday. They offered her the job last week and she accepted. “Since ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago Board of Education said Thursday it will vote next week to approve a new Chicago Public Schools CEO. The Board plans to vote on approval of naming Macquline King, the ...

*Community member Lara Wakefield addressed the Columbia School Board on Thursday. An earlier version of this article misspelled her first name. The Columbia School Board approved an increase of 20% to ...

The Chicago Board of Education voted today to install interim CEO Macquline King as the district’s next permanent leader, tapping a former teacher and principal with deep local roots to helm the ...