Stephanie Banchero

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...

Three years ago, officials with the State Board of Education and the Illinois Community College Board met in the governor's office and hammered out an agreement on adult education. Central...

State Board of Education officials have not decided whether they will create an official academic watch list of schools that performed poorly during the last three years, but they have...

As Oak Lawn High School District 229 board members and a group of citizens continue their public fight, some students and officials fear the hostility is setting a bad tone...

The Illinois State Board of Education moved one step closer Thursday to requiring special education students to participate in state-mandated testing. About 4 percent of the state's estimated 200,000 special...

Oak Lawn School District 229 officials have been questioned by Cook County prosecutors amid allegations of political cronyism by the district's school board president. The Cook County state's attorney's office...

The pendulum of control has swung back to the voting minority on the contentious Joliet Junior College Board, raising the hopes of many college officials that a smoother course is...

The battle between Joliet Junior College and its foundation ended up in court Thursday when members of the charitable group sued the college to prevent the release of a donation...

If the state's 2 million students changed their minds on test questions as often as state educators do on test taking, they likely would never finish the state-mandated exams. In...

Chalkboards, the epicenter of classrooms for more than a century, are quickly being erased from the nation's education system. As school officials across the nation hurtle into the high-tech age,...