Ana Beatriz Cholo

Attempting to wipe out a rodent problem that threatens students' health, Chicago Public Schools officials have ordered a "top-to-bottom scouring" of all of the district's 600 schools. The schools will...

In a reprisal of her role as an elementary school principal in the feature film "School of Rock," actress Joan Cusack played top administrator at Agassiz Elementary School in Lincoln...

Thousands of Chicago children began the new school year Tuesday with fresh opportunities--from longer school days to revamped buildings--but most students still did not benefit from federal reforms designed to...

Last year Murphy Elementary, a Northwest Side school whose test scores have been rising in the last few years, took in eight students from a neighboring school that had not...

A St. Louis teenager trying to slide down a stairwell banister at the Museum of Science and Industry fell three stories to her death Saturday, Chicago police said. Katie Brooks,...

The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services has searched four years for Shalis Gama, a mother who fled with her son to prevent the state from taking the boy...

Chicago can authorize 15 new charter schools under legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Rod Blagojevich that also restores some bargaining powers city teachers lost under a 1995 school reform measure....

Nearly 90 percent of the Chicago Public Schools instructors who teach math, reading and other core classes meet tough new federal standards, according to a report released Friday by the...

A summer-school program designed to help end social promotions in Chicago's public schools benefited pupils in the short term, but the progress did not continue during the year, a study...

A janitorial firm operated by a former Operation PUSH president is among four minority or female-owned firms that Chicago Public Schools officials are seeking to ban from city contracts for...