Chicago schools moving ahead with closings
Feb 26, 2009
The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close, consolidate or revamp 16 public schools starting in September after hearing nearly five hours of testimony from dozens of parents, teachers and students who spoke out against the plan.
Schools hope for best, prepare for the worst
Feb 24, 2009
Despite learning that Illinois public schools could receive as much as $3 billion in federal stimulus aid, many of the region's top educators face the next budget cycle as grimly as children in line at a vaccine clinic.
Gay students going 'full kitsch' for mixer
Feb 20, 2009
There will be music, heart-shaped decorations and the ever observant eyes of parent chaperons roaming the school commons. Beneath pink streamers, teenagers will dance and pose for pictures in the Cupid Booth.
College of DuPage chairman's defamation lawsuit dismissed
Feb 19, 2009
A defamation lawsuit filed by the College of DuPage board chairman against three female former trustees of the college who accused him of sexual harassment was dismissed Wednesday.
Group calls for delay in plans to close city schools
Feb 18, 2009
A group opposed to a Chicago Public Schools plan to close and reorganize schools released two studies Tuesday saying the efforts have not led to improvements and have focused on poor neighborhoods undergoing gentrification.
2 Geneva girls missing since Wednesday are found safe
Feb 17, 2009
Two 15-year-old Geneva girls missing since Wednesday were found safe about 1 a.m. Monday, Geneva police reported.
Evanston police plan to discuss 10-year-old's death
Feb 17, 2009
Evanston police plan to discuss Tuesday the findings of an investigation into the death of a 10-year-old boy who reportedly was found hanging from a hook in a bathroom at his middle school.
Ailing S.C. school sees Obama stimulus plan as lifeline
Feb 12, 2009
DILLON, S.C.—Ty'sheoma Bethea went to the public library in this struggling South Carolina town Tuesday night to write a letter to Congress about the economic stimulus bill.
Naperville board satisfied with school chief credentials
Feb 12, 2009
School board members in Naperville School District 203 said Wednesday that they are happy with their newly appointed superintendent, although their consulting firm should have mentioned he earned his doctorate from an unaccredited university.
Proposed closing of Las Casas high school worries parents of special-needs students
Feb 12, 2009
Jonthan Turner, an autistic student at Las Casas Occupational High School, lives by a routine his mind has mastered.
Aldermen seek answers about school corporal punishment allegations
Feb 11, 2009
At least two Chicago alderman are calling on newly installed Chicago Public Schools chief Ron Huberman to appear before a City Council education committee to answer findings that more than 500 students suffered corporal punishment at the hands of school officials during the last five years.
Catholic school in Niles to become first in Illinois to offer special education program
Feb 09, 2009
Like many Catholic parents, Kevin and Elaine Burke wanted their son to attend a high school that combined rigorous academics for the mind with spiritual formation for the soul.
Chicago special-ed student guaranteed his bus service
Feb 06, 2009
The attorney for Rayvaughn Jackson, a 6-year-old special-education student who waited more than two months to get bus service to his West Side school, reached an agreement Thursday with Chicago Public Schools guaranteeing the child will get transportation through the end of the school year.
11-year-old prodigy wows high-schoolers
Feb 04, 2009
At a little taller than 4 feet and weighing about 70 pounds, 11-year-old Adora Svitak stood in her pink pompom-tasseled boots and blue sweat pants Tuesday and told some of Chicago's best public high school students to start cracking their books.
Arne Duncan to tackle 'No Child' policy as Obama's education secretary
Dec 17, 2008
When Arne Duncan heads to Washington, his driving task will be to rethink No Child Left Behind, the all-or-nothing law that has shaped how every child and every classroom in the country is judged.
