V. Dion Haynes

The discoveries of more children living in filth underscores a proposal by a West Side schoolteacher to create city boarding schools. Corla Hawkins well remembers a 12-year-old girl who briefly...

With few burning or controversial issues on the ballot, Tuesday's school board elections in north Cook County suburbs ended quietly with another disappointingly low voter turnout. Whether because of the...

St. Augustine High School in New Orleans has had one of Louisiana's top basketball programs in the '90s, but its head coach, Bernard Griffith, wasn't anyone special when it came...

Less than a day after U.S. Rep. Mel Reynolds announced his resignation, the field of candidates seeking to succeed him became more crowded. State Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) said she...

In the late 1980s, the New York public school system looked a lot like Chicago's: kids jammed into closets and bathrooms for lessons, buildings falling apart from neglect. An overcrowded...

Despite passionate pleas and angry protests from hundreds of students and parents, a Chicago Board of Education committee Tuesday passed the buck on the fate of eight underused schools, including...

Cautiously basking in the prospect of receiving his longtime wish for more control over Chicago Public Schools, Mayor Richard Daley on Wednesday called a plan unveiled by Gov. Jim Edgar...

Wanted: a 4-acre parcel set back from a major thoroughfare and far from railroad tracks. Would prefer vacant land, but willing to consider knocking down houses. Displacing businesses, though, is...

More than 200 Chicago-area teen mothers will participate in an experimental federal welfare reform program aimed at moving them from the public assistance rolls to financial independence through education and...

Ask a handful of "experts" about the school-finance plans offered up by the two major candidates for Illinois governor, and half of them concede, apologetically, that their grasp of the...