Stephanie Banchero

Two Illinois State Board of Education employees were indicted Wednesday on charges of reckless conduct for allegedly allowing ammonia-tainted lunches to be served in a Joliet school, sickening 44 teachers...

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and Rep. Jan Schakowsky called Tuesday for the U.S. Department of Agriculture to explain what role the agency played in a food poisoning incident that left...

An Illinois State Board of Education analysis of how districts would fare under Gov. Rod Blagojevich's new spending plan shows that while most school districts would see a boost in...

Illinois education officials knew a plan to treat ammonia-tainted school lunch food did not work, fouling thousands of meals, but they never notified the schools that had the food in...

A 12-year-old boy who had spent the morning cleaning his Back of the Yards neighborhood in a City of Chicago-sponsored event was shot to death Saturday. Rene Guillen, a 7th...

Nearly 90 percent of the Chicago Public Schools instructors who teach math, reading and other core classes meet tough new federal standards, according to a report released Friday by the...

Confronted with warnings about crowded classrooms, severe staff cuts and strained finances, voters Tuesday approved tax increases for two North Shore school districts, but they turned down a Lake County...

Despite the ailing economy and tensions over the war in Iraq, voters in southwest suburban Cook County were, for the most part, in a generous mood Tuesday, approving a dozen...

An ambitious, multimillion dollar plan by Batavia, Geneva and St. Charles to become technologically linked through a jointly owned, municipally run broadband system was getting a cold shoulder from voters...

Voters in three counties said no Tuesday to doubling the tax rate for operations and maintenance in the state's second-largest school district, far-flung District U-46. The defeat sets the stage...