Michael Martinez

Perhaps few of Chicago's glitterati or powerbrokers would be inclined to send their children to a Chicago public school, but they're clamoring to get into one themselves. In what is...

A 12-year-old South Side girl slept overnight on a school bus when the driver and his aide failed to notice her sleeping or hiding in the back of the bus,...

Let's make one point perfectly clear. Monday night's NCAA championship game between Kentucky and Utah isn't going to be about human highlight reels. There will be few, if any, monster...

The politics and passions of Chicago's Puerto Rican community on the Northwest Side played out in a raucous hearing Wednesday held by a state panel examining possible misuse of poverty...

As protesters denounced a state investigation as a veiled attempt to push Puerto Ricans out of their Near Northwest Side neighborhoods, leaders of an Illinois House Committee investigating Clemente High...

Walter Blanks, 65, a retired butcher who walks with a cane, viewed Terrell Elementary School from a distance last week and concluded that he might be able to help. On...

U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.), a frequent critic of Mayor Richard Daley's school board, called for the resignation Monday of board president Gery Chico--charging that Chico has conflicts of interests...

With political pressure mounting to hold schools more accountable for how well students do, the state on Thursday followed Chicago's lead and took the first step toward closing Illinois' worst...

Last spring, Chicago Public Schools officials were heartened by some long-awaited good news: Average reading scores for the system's students on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills were rising. It...

As the Chicago School Reform Board of Trustees' $1.4 billion construction project comes under attack for its growing number of consultants, board officials said they have selected a veteran Chicago...