Stephanie Banchero

After negotiating for seven and a half hours Wednesday night, union and district officials for Ridgeland Elementary School District 122 say they are closer to settling their contract dispute. Still--in...

Union and district officials at Ridgeland Elementary School District 122 emerged from a daylong negotiating session Monday without an agreement, but with hope one would be reached before pupils return...

Joliet school officials say their recent legal challenge of a law that allowed white residents to deannex is about more than simply keeping 50 kids in district schools: It's about...

Attorneys for Joliet Township School District 204 filed a lawsuit Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of a state law that has permitted mostly white suburbs to detach from mainly minority school...

The Joliet Township High School District 204 school board is continuing its two-year fight to stop some Jackson Township parents from moving their children out of the district. On Thursday...

Federal and Will County authorities are expected to announce Thursday a nine-count indictment against a 30-year-old Joliet man who they allege is part of an international child pornography ring that...

Hand-held laser pointers, the seemingly benign instruments used by lecturers using screens or blackboards, are fast becoming a target of municipal and school leaders in southwest suburban towns. In the...

Officials in Will County School District 92 are hoping voters will be more generous in April than they were in November. During a Tuesday-night meeting, District 92 school board members...

When Beverly Carlock's 7-year-old daughter brought home a note about her school's plan to launch a Web page, Carlock envisioned a handy computerized newsletter offering lunch menus and curriculum updates....

For the better part of a year, Joliet Junior College trustees have spent their time bickering during board meetings, lambasting each other in the press, accusing each other of misdeeds...