Diane Rado

Almost every cent flowing into affluent Butler School District 53 in Oak Brook comes from local dollars, roughly $10.1 million. Most comes from property taxes paid by homeowners and businesses...

A suburban Chicago lawmaker is pushing to ban the cash bonuses that some school districts give to retired educators, a practice that costs local taxpayers thousands of dollars. State Rep....

Drive outside Chicago and an expensive picture of public schools unfolds in several communities. High spending per student and lots of parent involvement. Teachers who earn more than $100,000, on...

Some Chicago-area school districts are quietly giving tens of thousands of dollars in bonuses to teachers and administrators who are already retired — payouts that come on top of multiple...

Statewide math scores went up, but English performance dipped and high school results were the lowest among all grade levels in both subjects in the second year of the controversial...