Diane Rado

Mayor Richard Daley wants more state money for schools, but not badly enough to sign on to Gov. Rod Blagojevich's plan to tax businesses' gross receipts. In his first public...

Illinois elementary school pupils passed the newly revamped state achievement exams at record rates last year, but critics suggest it was more the result of changes to the tests than...

Voters approved a $450 million plan to build 14 new schools in booming Oswego Community Unit School District 308, the largest school construction bond plan on the ballot in recent...

Unlike public schools, commercial driving schools are regulated by the Illinois secretary of state and cannot reduce the required six hours of instructor-supervised street driving with training on simulators and...

At a time when teen-driving experts maintain that young drivers need more supervised practice behind the wheel, schools across Illinois and the country have been slashing valuable street driving with...

In news that cast a pall over their summer vacations, 627 students who recently took the ACT college-entrance exam at five Illinois high schools learned that their tests were discarded...

Under attack from political opponents, Gov. Rod Blagojevich acknowledged Sunday that it won't be easy to push through his proposal to create the most expansive state preschool program in the...

State officials said Wednesday that funding for a Chicago State University student outreach program is on its way to the university, a day after the program's employees were laid off....

Hales Franciscan athletes again can don their uniforms after the Illinois High School Association lifted its suspension of the school Wednesday. The Catholic school was suspended after the IHSA discovered...