Stephanie Banchero

More than 40 percent of Illinois public schools failed to meet academic standards last school year, education officials announced Tuesday, and the state as a whole likely will be labeled...

Despite an $845,000 plan to improve dissemination of the annual school report card, the Illinois State Board of Education acknowledged Thursday that it likely will not have the information ready...

Only 11 percent of eligible Chicago Public Schools students have signed up for free after-school math and reading tutoring, sparking complaints that district officials did not work hard enough to...

Thousands of Chicago children began the new school year Tuesday with fresh opportunities--from longer school days to revamped buildings--but most students still did not benefit from federal reforms designed to...

With the force of new federal education reforms behind them, more than 19,000 students are seeking to move out of academically struggling Chicago schools and into better ones--a deluge of...

The math and verbal SAT scores of Illinois high school students climbed faster than the scores of students in every other state over the last decade, according to data released...

Mayor Richard Daley on Tuesday announced a host of new and expanded programs aimed at improving the health and educational opportunities of the city's preschool children, asserting that social ills...

The average ACT composite score for Illinois high school seniors increased slightly this year even though a record number of state students took the college entrance exam, according to data...

The Chicago Public Schools will have to identify students considered at risk for committing future crimes and set up a program to give them tours of a state prison in...

Only a little more than a thousand Chicago students will get a chance to switch schools this fall under federal education reforms that were supposed to give families a chance...