Stephanie Banchero

If it's true that a house divided against itself cannot stand, then officials in Palos School District 118 should prepare for a house in ruins. District officials and a swarm...

After a half-decade of borrowing money every year simply to make ends meet, Richland School District 88A is steps away from operating in the black. But the recent financial gains...

Inside the dining car of Amtrak's gleaming City of New Orleans train, 14-year-old Melissa Watson and five friends were deep into a game of spades and watching the movie "Simon...

Joliet school officials say they will give up their challenge to a law that has let mostly white suburbs detach from mainly minority school districts if--and only if--the governor signs...

The race for the Joliet Junior College Board of Trustees took a strange twist Wednesday when two candidates accused another candidate of using an illegally obtained college memo to promote...

Home schoolers across the nation spent a decade fighting for the legal right to teach their children at home. Now the fight is moving out of the classroom and onto...

A 13-year-old boy is suing Oak Lawn-Hometown District 123, claiming school officials failed to protect him from a class bully. The 6th grader says in his suit that a classmate,...

Come March, students at Joliet Junior College will not have a Coke and a smile. Instead, they'll have to join Pepsi's Generation Next. Under a deal reached this week, school...

Officials in cash-anemic Crete-Monee School District 201-U have attempted just about every maneuver to keep the district afloat. They've borrowed money until they could borrow no more. They've slashed teaching...

Joliet Junior College trustees, who said two months ago they would launch a nationwide search for a new college president, are expected Tuesday to give the job to a longtime...