Michael Martinez

The Chicago school board moved swiftly Wednesday to patch up a major hole in its mandatory summer school program, which had tried to end a long tradition of promoting all...

The tears, anger and resentment over being the first targets of a crackdown on social promotions in Chicago Public Schools culminated Tuesday when 7,257 poor-performing 8th graders attended their first...

Simplistic and misguided, at worst. Wholly political and decidedly impractical, at best. President Clinton is talking tough on gangs again this week, and the people who work on the front...

Though there was disappointment over the record low turnout in the March primary, Chicago school officials were praising voters Monday for one of the highest turnouts for local school council...

After a federal court last week ordered the reinstatement of Tilton School Principal Debrona Banks--handing the 10-month-old Chicago School Reform Board its biggest defeat yet--lawyers and watchdog groups began studying...

In what Chicago school officials termed a setback to their reform efforts, a federal judge Thursday reinstated Debrona Banks as principal of the Tilton School on the West Side, four...

On his first day on the job Wednesday, Englewood High School interim Principal Tommye Brown made clear his determination to turn around the academic performance of students at one of...

Quickly and with little comment last week, the Chicago school board updated its policies on HIV, eliminating seemingly discriminatory rules that had lingered on the books since the early days...

A day after the controversial novel "Coffee Will Make You Black" was removed from the South Side's Julian High School, provoking debate over the delicate judgments teachers must make about...

As the day came to a close Thursday at the South Side elementary school, several pupils paused to gawk at janitors sweeping up the bloody traces of a fatal shooting...