Stephanie Banchero

Ten years ago, 2,500 pupils were enrolled in Hinsdale School District 181. If enrollment growth continues at its present rate, more than 3,800 youngsters will be sitting in district classrooms...

A DuPage County Regional Office of Education employee says she was told by her bosses Wednesday to clean out her desk and never come back to work, just hours after...

Every year, thousands of young men and women step into public school classrooms for the first time to embark on a teaching career. But studies show 30 percent to 50...

Illinois has won praise for being the only state in the nation that requires daily physical education for all students, every year from kindergarten to 12th grade. But nearly 20...

Barnstorming across the Chicago area, Gov. George Ryan was a welcome guest as he presented local school districts with shares of $482.7 million in state construction grants. This year, 68...

Just when it seemed as though Puffer-Hefty School District 69 was out of breath, the school board has administered a dose of CPR, giving the tiny school district one last...

Fifteen-year-old Bernard Jordan has spent the better part of the week in a darkened science lab, hunched over a table, painstakingly transferring hemoglobin from a small test tube into a...

Benedictine University in Lisle recently snagged $2.7 million in grant money to help pump up its science and technology offerings. Earlier this month, the independent Roman Catholic school received a...

A group of residents huffed and puffed and finally blew down tiny Puffer-Hefty School District 69. The DuPage County Board of Regional Trustees Monday night wiped out the county's smallest...

The DuPage Regional Board of School Trustees postponed until Monday a decision about the fate of tiny Puffer-Hefty School District 69. After a three-hour hearing Thursday, trustees said they need...