Michael Martinez

For those who wonder how Mayor Richard Daley--a white ethnic in a city with a minority majority population--keeps control of Chicago, the following is offered as part of the mayor's...

A special Illinois House panel investigating how state poverty funds were spent at Clemente High School has subpoenaed records from Ald. Billy Ocasio relating to a community organization he headed...

A subject more usually associated with groans or yawns--an item on a school lunch menu-- became a national health issue Wednesday as school and health officials across the country scrambled...

Gym teachers and student athletes love it. The less athletically inclined usually don't. Health experts say sluggish students need it. And in Chicago and throughout the state, waves after waves...

Mayor Richard Daley said Tuesday he played no role in the Chicago Public Schools' recent awarding of a no-bid contract to a friend of his, developer Tom Rosenberg. Asked if...

A group of Latino civic leaders Thursday questioned whether the Chicago Public Schools chief acted legally when he appointed an interim principal at Clemente High School. "The law does not...

Leaders at Clemente High School and the Chicago school board, often at odds the last several months, were in rare agreement Tuesday as both moved quickly to blunt an escalating...

A suburban educator turned down an offer to become principal of Clemente High School because she claimed she was intimidated by people who did not want her in the school,...

In the stillness of the predawn hours, Ed Rachford, interim superintendent of Flossmoor Elementary District 161, was checking weather reports. By 5:30 a.m., he was on the phone with bus...

Not long ago, blaming the teachers union for the problems in public education would have been a safe, though an all too common, criticism for a politician to make in...