Casey Banas

A banner designed by 5th graders and sewn by their teacher at Naperville's Steeple Run Elementary School will take a dog sled trip this spring to the top of the...

The founder of the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy was delighted at the latest report of graduates' college degrees. Leon Lederman, Nobel laureate in physics, proposed and lobbied politicians 11...

Jacquelyn DeFazio, assistant principal for instruction at Glenbard East High School, has been named to succeed retiring Principal Paul Hadley, who will step down June 30 from the post he...

Indian Prairie Unit School District 204 has appointed two new principals for the 1995-96 school year. Geraldine Gray will become principal of Indian Plains School, Aurora, and Kathellen McCord will...

Bruce Viernow, an administrator and teacher for 27 years in Glenbard High School District 87, has been named principal of Mooseheart Junior-Senior High School. Mooseheart, founded in 1913, is a...

Omar Latif of Glendale Heights, a student at the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, has been named by the Museum of Science and Industry as the outstanding young scientist of...

The superintendent of Bensenville's Fenton High School has a new contract providing for a raise of up to 70 percent in his last year before retirement. John Meredith, 52, has...

Hundreds of paper teeth strung across the learning center at Johnson Elementary School provided ample evidence about how busy the tooth fairy has been in the last 10 months. When...

The average teacher in Butler Elementary School District 53 will receive a 9.6 percent salary increase in the first two years of a new three-year contract. The base annual salary...

The economics lessons Dan Peel teaches pupils at Peacock Junior High School in Itasca bring big financial gains, at least on paper. Every year, Peel's 7th graders in social studies...