Casey Banas

The Chicago Board of Education is battling to reduce the 58.5 percent dropout rate at Du Sable High School in part with birth-control pills, but a South Side minister entered...

Gov. James R. Thompson said Tuesday his staff had a ''reasonable proposal'' that might end the third walkout in three years by Chicago public teachers and dispatched his top aide...

Negotiations aimed at averting a Chicago teachers strike continued into the early hours Sunday, as union leaders reported slight progress but maintained that if no settlement with the school board...

Peggy Jackson prowls in front of her charges like a general urging the troops to battle. ''I can wake up the dead with this voice,'' the Morgan Park High School...