Stephanie Banchero

Officials in Wheaton-Warrenville School District 200 say they have not heard a peep from students about the upcoming one-year anniversary of the Columbine High School massacre. They haven't received any...

After a six-month national search, officials of School District 181 have tapped an insider to head Hinsdale Middle School. Edward Dulaney, principal at Prospect Elementary School, will move to the...

A jubilant Joel Morris, superintendent of Elmhurst School District 205, toted a bright green hard hat to work Wednesday morning in celebration of a $77 million referendum question supported by...

At 1 a.m. Wednesday, a few weary school board members huddled within the Barrington school administration building, waiting for election results from one last precinct that carried a scrap of...

Voters in DuPage and Kane Counties faced more than a dozen referendum questions seeking permission to spend more than $300 million to rehab aging schools and build new ones. Another...

Faced with burgeoning enrollments and aging buildings, several school districts in DuPage County are asking voters to approve spending a staggering total of $290 million on their schools. In four...

Following a national trend, the Illinois State Board of Education voted Thursday to change the way special-education teachers are trained and licensed, essentially making them generalists instead of specialists. The...

One day last winter during a snowstorm, 9-year-old Phillip Olsen slipped into his bulky nylon snow pants, pulled a knit cap over his head and mittens onto his hands, and...

Seventeen-year-old Leanne Hilgart is a dyed-in-the-wool animal lover. She does not eat meat. She volunteers every Sunday at the West Suburban Humane Society. She is an active member of People...

Puffer-Hefty school officials got a little breathing room when the DuPage County Regional Board of School Trustees agreed to reconsider whether a group of residents has gathered enough names on...