Ray Quintanilla

The three 11th graders from Chicago's Senn High School acknowledged feeling out of place as they stood among members of the football team waiting for an athletic physical: a requirement...

The Illinois State Board of Education has identified four schools in the state, including three in Chicago, that repeatedly have performed poorly and are making little, if any, progress toward...

Despite more than a decade of heightened recruitment efforts, the Aurora-based Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy has failed to recruit enough minority students to match the demographics of the state,...

For a decade, pupils at the Ana Roque De Duprey Elementary School, housed in the former St. Fidelis Catholic School in Humboldt Park, have had to use a chapel for...

It took four years of testing to finally conclude that Timothy Scott, a 6th grader at Herzl Elementary School in Chicago, had a mild learning disability. Two years later, Timothy...

About 45 Fenger High School students and staff members were treated and released from local hospitals Thursday after someone "pulled a prank" and discharged pepper spray or Mace tear gas...

Key leaders in the General Assembly unveiled a legislative proposal Thursday that, if passed, would reduce the power of Chicago's local school councils to hire and fire principals and require...

Until Tuesday's shooting that left 15 dead in Littleton, Colo., this had been the nation's least violent school year since at least 1992. Officials attribute the overall downturn to new...

A masked gunman walked into a one-room alternative school Thursday afternoon in Elgin and opened fire on a 14-year-old boy, killing him before running out to a waiting getaway car,...

Chicago's announced strategy to expand and upgrade the international facilities at its principal airport is seen by the suburban business community as a largely defensive move to keep the city...