Stephanie Banchero

State Schools Supt. Max McGee will launch a public relations blitz on Monday, hoping to burnish his agency's image and dispel perceptions that the State Board of Education is an...

The new Clarendon Hills Middle School will boast myriad amenities: a state-of-the-art applied-technology lab, computer and video hookups in every classroom and a "cafetorium," a combination auditorium and cafeteria connected...

High school juniors will begin taking a series of high-pressure tests next year that would affect their Illinois college admissions and even their car insurance rates under a plan being...

After a Wheaton Warrenville School District 200 committee vote against a district-developed charter school, a group of area residents plans to submit a proposal for a privately run charter high...

Glenbard East High School senior Kelly Cerf stepped to the school microphone, gathered the three pages before her and read a scripted text of daily announcements and coming events. Then...

When voters in Hinsdale School District 181 approved construction of a second middle school, some parents worried the new Clarendon Hills facility would not have the same stellar academic and...

The Illinois State Board of Education on Thursday unanimously approved the cash-strapped Round Lake Area School District 116's request for financial oversight and petition for emergency assistance. Laura McGuire, school...

A group of testing experts hired to review the state's new learning standards and the Illinois Standards Achievement Test offered a mixed report Thursday, saying the standards are "average to...

The fire that destroyed a Hinsdale Central High School classroom and caused $50,000 in damage may have been less detrimental if smoke detectors or a sprinkling system had been in...

Three DuPage County school districts are asking the regional board of education to dismiss a petition filed by a group of Clarendon Hills residents who want to switch from Westmont...