Stephanie Banchero

Chicago Public Schools officials said they will delay adopting the 2008 budget for 60 days, while they wait for lawmakers in Springfield to pass education funding reform. Typically, Chicago school...

A small group of parents whose children recently received diplomas from a Southwest Side elementary school learned on the last day of school that their kids may not have graduated....

Salvador Duran had often talked to his son about the dangers lurking in his neighborhood, but the independent-minded teen was hard-pressed to listen. Roberto Duran, 14, had lived his entire...

At Avalon Park Elementary School, the 8th graders in Room 104 still wrestle with the pain. It's in the eyes of the young man who cannot bring himself to talk...

Saying that "stranger danger" now is lurking on the Internet, Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan launched a campaign Monday to help protect children from online predators. Speaking at a news...

Head Start teacher Enrique Renteria sits on the floor, holding up a book and asking the dozen 3- and 4-year-olds sitting around him about the flowers in the picture: What...

As she got ready for her night shift at O'Hare Airport on Wednesday, Quince Jackson spoke soothingly to her children, telling them not to wait up for her. Her job...

For nearly two decades, state education officials set aside a paltry $500,000 a year to help spur arts education in Illinois public schools. But after a 2005 audit revealed that...

After spending $44,000 on a national search, members of the Illinois State Board of Education picked a superintendent Thursday from their own back yard. Christopher Koch, who is interim superintendent,...