Students will get more days off this summer after last year’s shortened break, but the academic quarter will not end before winter vacation, as some had hoped.

After debate about when the first semester should end, the school board ultimately chose to adopt calendars in which the ...

Chicago Board of Education members said they heard concerns from high school families about kids having to worry about final exams during winter break.

Board members sent district officials back to revise proposed school calendars after raising concerns about post-winter break testing, student well-being and whether semesters should end before the ...

The school board had debated whether to tweak the calendar so that the first semester ended before winter break. But CPS officials said it wouldn’t be possible without other cuts, such as to the ...