Chicago Public Schools are sticking with a pre-Labor Day start to the 2022-23 school year, even offering families a chance to vote on whether to resume classes two weeks before the holiday next fall in what would be the district’s earliest start in recent memory.
Until this year, the district had maintained a September return even as other Illinois districts moved their start dates earlier and earlier into August. The last time CPS tried an August start nearly a decade ago, it switched back to September the next year.
