Karen M. Thomas

The Chicago school administration has flunked an initial test of school reform by failing to help local school council members get the process underway, according to a poll of council...

Ted Kimbrough, the man hired to take over as superintendent of Chicago`s troubled public schools next year, amassed a portfolio of real estate and private business holdings during his many...

Top Chicago school officials defended a decision to spend $1,745 of a $125,000 foundation grant to cover a two-day stay in a hotel suite for incoming Schools Supt. Ted Kimbrough,...

When Charlene Porter, a North Side mother of three, found out she won a parent seat on the local school council at Jensen Scholastic Academy, tears came to her eyes...

A 2d grader who lives in Dearborn Park came home one day to announce that there were ''Hilliards'' attending her South Loop Elementary School, and while she did not know...

Outside of South Loop Elementary School, Essie Mason-Purnell looked on Wednesday as a steady stream of voters arrived, some walking under the Roosevelt Road overpass from their Dearborn Park homes,...

More than 16,000 people have declared that their candidacies for the October local school council elections, but improper reporting by some schools may lead to a lesser number of candidates...

''It`s Byrd`s turn.'' While that phrase once led the fight for Manford Byrd Jr. to become Chicago school superintendent, it now means he has joined the list of leaders who...

Apples, oranges and other edibles now commonly thought of as ''health foods'' may soon bear precautionary labels about potentially harmful pesticide levels, under legislation introduced in the General Assembly Tuesday....

Mayor Eugene Sawyer said Thursday night he supports extending the contract of Chicago Public Schools Supt. Manford Byrd Jr., but will not inject himself into the Board of Education`s deliberations...