Casey Banas

The state provided less than 40 percent of the funds needed to run elementary and secondary public schools last year, Comptroller Roland Burris said Thursday in a report predicting continued...

A freshman at York High School in Elmhurst, described as a lonely youth taunted for his punk dress and apparent interest in satanism, was charged Wednesday in the stabbing of...

One way for a private college to raise scholarship funds is to stage a benefit ball, and during the last 23 years friends of Lisle`s Illinois Benedictine College have contributed...

Michael Dukakis` proposal to spend $300 million a year to upgrade science teaching in the public schools is identical to a plan advocated-so far without success-by the National Science Teachers...

When Writer`s Workbench, the computer program used to improve student writing at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn, analyzed a Tribune story and a Tribune editorial, it made the...

You suddenly find yourself with the power to change the Chicago Public Schools. What would you do? This question was put to about 50 people with the power to make...

Gov. James Thompson set the stage Tuesday for a renewed battle over efforts to raise the state income tax by telling Illinois educational leaders he will not recommend any increases...

Chicago area residents coped with an arctic cold wave Tuesday and early Wednesday, when temperatures plunged at midnight to minus 9 at O`Hare International Airport and threatened to break the...

Half of Chicago`s public high schools rank in the bottom 1 percent of schools in the United States in their students` American College Test scores, according to the second annual...

The 28,000 members of the Chicago Teachers Union were voting Friday on whether to ratify the agreement that ended the 19-day school strike. Although in the past union members have...