Kristen Mack

Before mayor-in-waiting Rahm Emanuel unveiled his education leadership team, his advance scouts laid out markers in blue tape on the floor of a high school library to choreograph precisely where...

NEWARK, N.J.—If Garry McCarthy had a honeymoon as Newark's top cop it ended violently on a single day in July 2009. On July 20 of that year, eight people were...

Garry McCarthy never made it to New York police headquarters on 9/11. The second plane hit the south tower of the World Trade Center when he was about a block...

Rahm Emanuel is keeping some of outgoing Mayor Richard Daley's leadership team at the City Colleges of Chicago so it can see through a plan to "reinvent" the system. The...

Rahm Emanuel told an audience Wednesday he wants to restore Chicago's community policing to its roots and quickly push through changes to help the city's public school students get a...

As Chicago Public Schools officials continue to refine a budget proposal expected this month, Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel and outgoing Mayor Richard Daley said they don't support raising property taxes to...

The Chicago Teachers Union jabbed at Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel on Thursday over education reforms pending in Springfield, a sign that upcoming talks on a new contract might not be easy....

The candidates Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel is talking to during his national search for Chicago's next schools chief fall into two camps: innovators and reformers. The innovators have shown an ability...

While his handpicked education team met this week to begin figuring out how to implement Rahm Emanuel's campaign promises to fix city schools, the mayor-elect is forging ahead to find...

NBA star Dwyane Wade was awarded sole custody of his sons after a drawn-out and contentious battle with his ex-wife, lawyers said Sunday. The Miami Heat guard's children, ages 3...