Mila Koumpilova

Mila Koumpilova

Senior Reporter, Chalkbeat Chicago

Mila Koumpilova is a Senior Reporter at Chalkbeat Chicago. She previously wrote about higher education and immigration at the Star Tribune newspaper in Minneapolis. Mila has also covered education at the St. Paul Pioneer Press and The Forum in Fargo, N.D. A former North Dakota Rookie Reporter of the Year, she has received recognition from the Education Writers Association, the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists and others. She is a graduate of the American University in Bulgaria and the Missouri School of Journalism.

The current school board is slated to fire or offer the CPS schools chief a buyout at a Friday evening meeting

The school board will hold a special meeting Friday night to consider terminating Chicago Public Schools CEO Pedro Martinez

The Chicago Teachers Union says Trump’s mass deportation plans make it especially urgent for the district to agree to a new contract before 2025.

Former Chicago Public Schools administrators will join the school board today at its December meeting.

The unions have raised concerns that some CTU proposals would shave away power from their members.

School board members called on the district to settle with its teachers union on the same day the union asked them to intervene.

Both sides say they are making progress at the bargain table — but much work remains

Four candidates faced off in District 10 in Chicago’s historic election to determine 10 members of a new, partially elected board.

Therese Boyle and Che “Rhymefest” Smith were declared winners in the race for Chicago school board seats in Districts 9 and 10, respectively. District 1 has not been called.