Diane Rado

A few years into John Butts' superintendent job in DuPage's Lake Park High School District 108, a lucrative perk showed up in his contract: 300 sick days. In an amendment...

Stanley Fields resigned after just a year as superintendent of a suburban Cook County school district where he was put on leave, faced with firing and ultimately required to apologize...

In three years as superintendent of the school district in Rochester, N.Y., Jean-Claude Brizard was targeted in at least two federal lawsuits, including an ongoing discrimination case, that hint at...

Ambitious education reforms on the table in Springfield could change how Illinois schoolteachers earn tenure and hold onto their jobs amid tough financial times, with seniority for the first time...

Eight of 10 public high school juniors in Illinois weren't considered ready for college classes in all subjects based on ACT testing last spring -- and many students missed the...

America's traditional 180-day school year is more myth than reality in Illinois, as a jumble of state laws, rules and waivers allow districts to chip away instruction time, shorten school...

Illinois education leaders had pledged to test every kindergartner, turn around failing schools and revamp how teachers are evaluated across the state. But many of the bold reforms are now...

In the first public hearing on Gov. Rod Blagojevich's $7 billion tax plan to fund education and health care, there was rowdiness and dissent but no consensus on proposals that...

The state Senate approved tougher penalties Friday for theft of property after disclosures of a countywide scheme that bilked 20 churches, businesses and non-profit organizations out of 60 parcels of...