Stephanie Banchero

Jasmine Elliott is not exactly a gun zealot. In fact, the Carol Stream 7th grader has never fired a gun, held one in her hand or even seen one up...

As Illinois education officials balked Wednesday at immediately adopting more lenient criteria for judging schools, Chicago schools chief Paul Vallas pushed back the date for city students to take a...

The decision by state education officials to reinstate a warning list for troubled schools under a tough new exam has sent Chicago Public Schools officials scrambling to get some sort...

A group of Downers Grove residents has gathered enough names on a petition to force the dissolution of Puffer-Hefty Elementary School District 69, said attorneys on both sides. The residents,...

State Rep. Mary Lou Cowlishaw has introduced a bill that would let home schoolers play on public school sports teams and join other extracurricular activities, but the Naperville lawmaker may...

The State Board of Education voted Thursday to give up control of Illinois' $37 million adult education program--where it has been since its inception four decades ago--and shift the money...

Despite a year of legal battles and personnel problems, school board members in Lemont-Bromberek School District 113A say they do not expect the discord will harm efforts to attract a...

In the last five years, Community Consolidated School District 168 in south suburban Sauk Village has lost 80 teachers, nearly two-thirds of its workforce. Neighboring Harvey School District 152 finds...

A federal judge Tuesday upheld the expulsions of several black Decatur high school students, prompting outrage from Rev. Jesse Jackson and sighs of relief from school officials across the state...

A federal judge on Tuesday upheld the expulsion of six students for fighting at a football game, ruling that the Decatur School Board did not violate the teenagers constitutional rights....