Michael Martinez

By a close vote, the nation's largest teachers union, the National Education Association, on Wednesday rejected a measure that would have opened the door to various forms of performance-based pay...

The theme for this year's writing contest was easy enough: The Y2K hysteria (remember Y2K? It seems a distant memory now) came and went without an apocalypse and now it's...

Police investigating a reported shooting inside Parkside Elementary School just before classes started Monday made a startling discovery as they combed the building: On a hallway floor were three live...

Gery Chico likes to tell people that he doesn't make a cent as Chicago Board of Education president, a job that has won him national attention as a big-city reformer....

School district officials who took a pass on administering the 10th grade Illinois State Achievement Test could lose millions in federal dollars if they fail to give the exam next...

Thousands of workers switched on computers Monday for the first time this year and were greeted by something potentially horrifying--a routine day at the office. In schools and skyscrapers alike,...

Even with a tough new test for measuring how well students are performing, many schools along the North Shore and a few in the west suburbs stood apart, with up...

The Chicago school board on Wednesday voted to expel three students for the maximum two-year term, the same punishment that initially triggered a firestorm in Downstate Decatur. But while the...

The Chicago Public Schools system, which offers one of the largest JROTC programs in the country, will abolish marksmanship training and all rifle teams and competitions, officials said Monday. Schools...

When Kansas drew nationwide attention recently for its decision to eliminate the term "evolution" from its new state school standards, most people in Illinois probably didn't realize that Illinois had...