Casey Banas

Park View Elementary School won 3rd place last week in the international Odyssey of the Mind competition in the vaudeville category, beating teams from countries such as Russia and Hungary....

Thousands of frozen pizzas-8,021 to be exact-were piled on cafeteria tables last week at Madison Junior High School for pupils and teachers to distribute to families, friends and neighbors who...

All 10 of these Illinois high school superstars rank first academically in their senior classes, and all have straight "A" grades. But there's more to them than that. One played...

Hinsdale School Supt. David Hendrix offered some advice Wednesday to school boards on how to get referendum proposals approved by citizens: Abandon the old way of staging a referendum and...

DuPage County teachers are about to learn how they can open the world to students for the price of a local telephone call. York High School is the first hub...

Police on Tuesday charged a 16-year-old Wheaton high school junior with firing about 10 bullets through his school's front entrance, shattering windows and trophy cases. The youth fired his parents'...

The Wheatland Township assessor, the Township Board and Indian Prairie School District 204 officials are to appear Thursday in Will County Circuit Court concerning a lawsuit filed by the school...

Sandy Rasmussen, a dean at Downers Grove North High School, studied the 274 prizes ranging from boom boxes to cameras to cases of pop. "I had perfect attendance, too," she...

Hawthorn School District 73 shocked many district parents and others near the Vernon Hills-based district last year when it appeared for the first time ever on the state's watch list...

Chicago has the top four and nearly all of the bottom 35 public schools in the six-county area when test scores are measured against state expectations for academic achievement. But...