Stephanie Banchero

When called upon to read aloud last fall, Anthony Branch slumped in his seat and hid his brown eyes behind a textbook. In his first week of 2nd grade, the...

Gov. George Ryan is looking hard at overhauling the State Board of Education to give the governor more direct control of the Illinois school bureaucracy and the $8 billion it...

On a recent Sunday afternoon, eight Lyons Township High School students gathered in a second-floor classroom and began plotting the undercover operation. Two students were anointed the operatives and were...

A virtual reality: After a year in the planning stages, the Illinois Virtual High School is open for business. The statewide cyberschool, launched by the Illinois State Board of Education,...

The Glenbard District 87 school board, which just finished spend ing $34.5 million to remodel its four high schools, has decided to spend an additional $10 million. This time it...

When I got word 11 months ago that I was being moved from the Tribune's Southwest bureau to the TribWest bureau, I was not, to be frank, all that stoked....

The Illinois State Board of Education supported a proposal Thursday that calls for a slight increase in per-pupil spending for the state's nearly two million public school children. But even...

Illinois public schools, which already are grappling with significant teacher shortages, could face a much bigger problem if student enrollment growth and teacher retirements continue at their current paces. A...

While many students romped outside Tuesday or went to the mall as schools closed in response to a winter storm, dozens of others found themselves missing a day in balmy...

The doors to the classrooms at Waterbury Elementary School in Roselle are almost never closed. In fact, some classrooms don't even have doors. The lack of barriers can be seen...