Stephanie Banchero

Meeting for the first time since Gov. Rod Blagojevich made his education reform proposal, Illinois State Board of Education members charged Wednesday that the governor's plan to usurp their power...

Gov. Rod Blagojevich contends that Illinois school districts could save tens of millions of dollars annually if he controls the purchasing of their supplies. But many local school officials say...

Illinois tossed out more than 80,000 tests used to determine whether schools met academic standards this year in reading and math, inflating scores at nearly 1,400 schools and causing some...

The state testing data released Friday were supposed to permit the most sophisticated and detailed assessment ever of the Illinois public education system. Newly revamped as a result of federal...

State education officials said Wednesday that they will allow more than 300 schools to make last-minute corrections to data they had submitted for Illinois' school report card, potentially keeping the...

Illinois' school report card data are so marred with errors that at least 300 schools may have been mistakenly labeled as failing under the federal No Child Left Behind law,...

State officials are so overwhelmed by the data they must collect under federal education reform that many are releasing "school report cards" riddled with errors or delayed for so long...

Moody's Investors Service is predicting a bleak financial outlook for Illinois school districts, saying teacher salary and health care cost increases and soaring special-education costs, coupled with tax caps and...

As school districts statewide try to balance their budgets by slashing teaching positions, shutting schools and wiping out programs, superintendent salaries continue to soar, with nearly a quarter of local...

A Chicago Public Schools principal who was a doctor until he lost his medical license 15 years ago for "gross malpractice" in the death of a patient, was reassigned Wednesday...