Stephanie Banchero

The State Board of Education and the Illinois Teacher Certification Board have reached a tentative agreement on proposed teacher certification rules, clearing the way for state officials to publish the...

A group of Clarendon Hills residents is trying to detach its neighborhood from Westmont Unit School District 201 and annex into Hinsdale school districts 181 and 86, contending that their...

Mark McMillan, a Wheaton attorney who home-schools, believes his three children should have the same opportunity to play on a public school sports team or march in a school band...

Fifteen-year-old Tom Schmidt has spent eight years training for a chance to compete at the annual Illinois state high school swim meet. Six times a week, 2 1/2 hours a...

Downers Grove North senior Nicole Wagner has spent much of the school year hawking pizzas, cheesecake, Fannie May candies, fruit and pasta to every friend, relative and neighbor she could...

The ink was barely dry on the State Board of Education's proposal for toughening teacher certification rules Thursday when an official with the state's largest teacher's union blasted the document...

A group of Clarendon Hills residents is trying to detach its neighborhood from Westmont Unit School District 201 and annex into Hinsdale school districts 181 and 86, contending that their...

With their backs against the wall, teachers, administrators and a group of parents from Puffer-Hefty School District 69 have launched an aggressive counterattack against the faction that is trying to...

Glenbard School District 87 officials Monday night rebuffed a plea by area swimmers and their parents calling for a task force that would study whether the Glen Ellyn-based district should...

Chris Davit spent four years as a backstroke and butterfly specialist on her high school swim team, winning regional and state championships. The experience, she says, boosted her confidence, instilled...