Stephanie Banchero

The Illinois State Board of Education is poised to dole out nearly $2.6 million in pork spending to 36 non-profit, business and church groups Thursday, part of an ongoing program...

Illinois high school students continue to enroll in Advanced Placement courses in record numbers, but the proportion of them passing the rigorous AP exams continues its steady decline, according to...

A group of Latino parents from Logan Square begged state education officials Tuesday not to make their children take the regular state math and reading exams, saying widespread failure and...

Doctors should begin teaching adolescent sex education, a new study argues, because schools in Illinois aren't doing a good enough job. The study, to be published Thursday in the American...

Chicago Public School officials volunteered Thursday to pay at least $120,000 to translate the state math and science exams into Spanish, to help students who have limited-English language skills. In...

The state will spend $2.4 million to provide free ACT prep tests for every public school 9th and 10th grader, officials said Tuesday, just a few months after they launched...

President Bush came to Chicago on Monday to promote No Child Left Behind and lay the groundwork for renewal of his signature domestic initiative -- a once-popular education reform that's...

President Bush acknowledged that the nation's economy has a rough spot, but he told a local audience Monday that the country is fundamentally sound and he predicted it will return...

Lou Parochelli spends his free time comforting soldiers at O'Hare International Airport. "It's like I'm hugging my son," said Parochelli, whose 24-year-old son, an Army specialist, is stationed in Iraq....

In a cramped grade school classroom on the city's Far North Side, refugees from 17 countries stutter and stumble their way through a lesson on a weather pattern that is...