Stephanie Banchero

Something is going right at Wilton Center Elementary School. The 160-pupil school, nestled in the heart of agricultural-based Wilton Township in Will County, has made an impressive showing in this...

For at least a decade, pupils at Everett M. Dirksen Middle School in Calumet City have posted Illinois Goal Assessment Program test scores well below state averages. Dispiriting as that...

(This is one of eight stories and eighteen tables associated with the release of the 1998 Illinois school report cards for city and suburban schools.) For at least a decade,...

Northwest suburban voters gave small taxing bodies a vote of confidence this week, as they overwhelmingly approved tax-rate increases and bond issues. In recent elections, nervous public officials in the...

Some school districts across Will and southwest Cook Counties were celebrating Tuesday night after voters gave the OK to spend millions of dollars to build schools and raise taxes to...

Wanda Heidegger spent a lifetime fighting for her only son. Whenever Terry Heidegger skinned his knee, suffered nightmares or had problems in schools, it was his mother who soothed his...

Hector Hernandez wants to go to college. The 14-year-old Calumet City boy would like to get a degree in computer science or, maybe, in business because he believes an advanced...

Orland School District 135 officials are considering a policy that would allow them to suspend or expel students who make threatening comments to or about classmates or teachers. The proposed...

Five days a week, 17-year-old Ryan Gira lugs a textbook-laden backpack through the crowded halls at Sandburg High School. Sixteen-year-old Laura Egan keeps her math and U.S. history textbooks in...

Louis A. Morelli of Geneva, who co-founded a Chicago temporary help agency that grew into a publicly traded national firm with $700 million in annual sales, died Friday in Resurrection...