Stephanie Banchero

Dire warnings that private and parochial students will suffer because state officials shut down a program to "recognize" non-public schools have been overblown, according to higher education and state professional...

The 574 Illinois schools being sanctioned under a strict federal education law must take steps to comply even if the main requirement--allowing students to flee failing schools for better campuses--is...

Just weeks before school starts, districts across the state are scrambling to comply with what they contend are the vexing and even impossible requirements of federal education reform, which is...

The number of Illinois public schools labeled as academically failing nearly tripled to more than 600 this year as tough new federal reforms expanded to include the performance of subgroups...

The University of Illinois board of trustees will consider dueling proposals this week to increase undergraduate tuition by either 5 or 8 percent. U. of I. administrators support an 8...

Illinois State Board of Education officials have recommended that a Des Plaines charter school should be shut, saying school officials are violating aspects of the original licensing agreement. State Supt....

Every morning, 160 Nataki Talibah middle school pupils pile boisterously into the school gymnasium and plop themselves onto the floor. There, resting against canvas back supports, they close their eyes,...

As a Sikh growing up in the western Illinois farming community of Rochelle, Parvinder Thiara said he endured the stares and jeers of grade school classmates. Pupils called him "girlie"...

An icon of education, the yellow school bus, is emerging as a casualty of budget crises in states and school districts across the nation. Cash-strapped districts throughout California are likely...

It was the last day of our four-day stop in Rome, and we already had admired the breathtaking Sistine Chapel, wandered the awe-inspiring Colosseum and tossed a coin in the...