Casey Banas

Despite more than a decade of heightened recruitment efforts, the Aurora-based Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy has failed to recruit enough minority students to match the demographics of the state,...

A 15-year-old sophomore at Downers Grove North High School was charged Thursday with two counts each of unlawful use of a weapon and possession of an explosive device after he...

Tucked away in the $100 million budget for Naperville schools is a handful of spare change for a project called the Maplebrook Weather Station. As projects go in Naperville District...

Timothy Stonehocker of Wheaton is the only home-schooled student among the 48 American high school seniors named as winners of the first Lucent Technologies Global Science Scholars program. Lucent Technologies...

A team of seven children from Hinsdale's Monroe Elementary School was awarded one of eight special creativity awards among 816 schools in last week's world finals of the Odyssey of...

Hinsdale Middle School has won first place in the nation in this year's Continental Math League Contest for 8th graders. Students competed in the Pythagorean division in five written tests,...

Frances Fash is 15 times the age of the children she helps in Jane Moon's kindergarten class at Beebe Elementary School in Naperville. Fash, 90, volunteers three mornings a week...

Three essential ingredients for a successful election season are candidates, campaign issues and voter turnout. Two of the three have been in abundance in DuPage and Kane Counties, as voters...

Katharine Campbell, who taught U.S. history at Downers Grove North High School for 42 years and died in 1997, has bequeathed $500,000 from her estate to endow annual college scholarships...

The new north DuPage County spelling champion likes to curl up in his bed reading a mystery, and words rarely stump him. Patrick Devane, 13, an 8th grader at St....