Stephanie Banchero

Victoria Carwell trudges into the classroom, her shoulders drooping from the weight of her backpack, her white Reeboks dragging across the floor as though they were encased in cement. Already...

Rayola Victoria Carwell sits quietly on a wooden bench in the principal's office and folds her arms across her stomach to calm the whirling butterflies. She straightens the leg of...

High school juniors will take the state achievement exam nearly two months earlier next year, a switch Illinois education officials say is necessary to meet the demands of the No...

In the year since Rod Blagojevich took office, the Illinois governor had not had a meaningful conversation with state Supt. of Education Robert Schiller. The governor never responded when Schiller...

The Illinois high school teacher who shows students how to parallel park and use a rear-view mirror likely earns more than the educator who teaches them to solve quadratic equations...

A year and a half after it faced possible extinction, Hazel Crest School District 152 1/2 won a reprieve Thursday when the Illinois State Board of Education voted unanimously to...

Civil rights groups asked a federal judge Thursday to reject the Chicago Public Schools' new integration proposal, saying the plan is not specific enough and does not sufficiently address segregation...

Leaders of the state's teachers unions said Thursday that the Blagojevich administration consulted them as the governor crafted a controversial plan to revamp oversight of schools, even though lawmakers and...