Stephanie Banchero

State education leaders acknowledged Monday that their grand plans to recruit, train and keep more teachers have run headlong into the state's budget woes. During a daylong education summit convened...

A high-powered governor's task force is likely to deliver a proposal this summer to consolidate hundreds of school districts--an idea so politically poisonous two decades ago that it touched off...

Illinois, which has fallen behind other states in luring teachers with money and other incentives, soon is likely to see its already severe teacher shortage grow worse, according to data...

More than half of all the parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago are running budget deficits that total $23 million, according to figures released Thursday. In the last...

An additional 180,000 public school children in Illinois would be classified as impoverished under a new proposal that could dramatically change the flow of state education dollars to local school...

The Illinois State Board of Education approved a preliminary 2003 budget Friday that calls for a $250 million spending increase, much of it directed toward struggling schools and teacher training....

Even a junior high pupil can see there is nothing fair about Illinois' education system. Sagar Bhatt is ranked at the top of his 8th-grade class. He's in the accelerated...

Unless Illinois lawmakers do something about it, the state's school construction program will run out of money next year, leaving as many as 175 school districts without the cash they...

Hundreds of graduate teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign walked out of classes Wednesday, darkening classrooms across campus and leaving thousands of undergraduate students without teachers. The...

A 24-year-old woman and a young girl were killed early Thursday morning when a fire raged through their two-bedroom Englewood apartment while they were sleeping. Four other people were critically...