Stephanie Banchero

Colleen Ghelfi spent 10 weeks as a student teacher in Orland Park District 230, but when the first-year teacher walked into Andrew High School last year, a host of questions...

Colleen Ghelfi spent 10 weeks as a student teacher in Orland Park District 230, but when the first-year teacher walked into Andrew High School last year, a host of questions...

Two years ago, Kris Pryor was sneaking onto the Naperville North High School campus after cutting class when he got caught with a butterfly knife in his pocket. Under the...

The results of the state's tough new standardized test for elementary and high school students appears to be sending mixed signals in Chicago's southwest suburbs. For the most part, southwest...

School officials in Orland Park-based Community Consolidated School District 230 are considering instituting an assessment program that would allow them to withhold diplomas from students who fail to master curriculum...

The Illinois State Board of Education has decided not to create the annual academic warning list and watch list of poor-performing schools, saying the new Illinois Standards Achievement Test makes...

After two weeks of rallies, rhetoric and a brief stint in jail, Rev. Jesse Jackson returned to Chicago Thursday, leaving this small central Illinois city to deal with the consequences...

Three years ago, a Bolingbrook teenager pulled a steak knife from his lunch bag so he could slice an apple to share with his teacher. The teacher reported the incident...

Hortencia Almazan has spent 30 years on Herkimer Street in Joliet, first as a young Mexican emigre living with 10 brothers and sisters in a small house and then in...

Hortencia Almazan has spent 30 years on Herkimer Street in Joliet, first as a young Mexican emigre living with 10 brothers and sisters in a small house and then in...