More than 500 Chicago Public School employees were given pink slips Wednesday in what officials said was the largest round of layoffs to ever hit the nation's third-largest school system.
The cost of borrowing from the federal government using Stafford loans just dropped for thousands of college students.
County commissioners urged state authorities today to shut down the Cook County Regional Education Office, in the wake of a critical audit that revealed that Supt. Charles A. Flowers used a government credit card for personal expenses and approved questionable payments to relatives on his payroll.
Exclusive data of school-by-school teacher turnover. The typical Chicago public school loses more than half of all its teachers within five years -- and about two-thirds of its new ones, a study released today by the University of Chicago indicates. Teacher churning is especially severe in high-poverty, heavily African-American schools -- about a hundred total -- where half of all teachers disappear after only three years, the study found.
Percent of teachers who were still in their CPS schools in the fall of the year listed, compared to the previous fall. These numbers do not reflect any adjustment for staff losses due to decreasing or increasing student enrollment. Only schools with enrollment data in 2006-2007 are included.
Percent of teachers who were still in their CPS schools in the fall of the year listed, compared to the previous fall. Note that a number of high schools have been closed or phased out, so their stability rates may be low in particular years for this reason. These numbers do not reflect any adjustment for staff changes due to decreasing or increasing student enrollment. Only schools with enrollment data in 2006-2007 are included.
PROVO, Utah -- Brigham Young University, the Mormon church school where students agree to live a chaste and virtuous life, has lifted its policy of blocking access to YouTube.
With Cook County boasting the dubious distinction of first in the nation in reported cases of gonorrhea -- and second in reported chlamydia cases -- the Chicago Public Schools will begin testing teens, who represent 60 percent of new reports.
The University of Illinois has raised tuition for freshman starting next fall by about 2.6 percent on each of its three campuses.
Teachers Wednesday predicted classroom "chaos" in September if officials go through with about 100 teacher cuts at 12 Chicago public schools where lower enrollment is projected.
Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich tried to use his position to clout at least one student into the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine, but documents show that applicant was rejected.
Glen Weissenberger, the popular dean of DePaul University’s College of Law, has been ousted — and he claims it was because he exposed “inaccurate’’ information given by the school to its accreditors.
Chicago Public Schools principals soon will be able to administer special assessments to test student skills, receive immediate results, and use those results to decide how to solve problems, according to schools chief Ron Huberman. Huberman told hundreds of school principals gathered at the University of Illinois at Chicago Forum on Tuesday that he wants to move more money out of the central office and into the schools.
President Obama’s senior adviser David Axelrod divulged a few secrets of his college days today as he told 1,300 journalism and other DePaul University graduates to "chase their passions” and not “succumb to the pull of the pull of the practical.” Axelrod’s remarks came as Iranians protested suspicious official election returns and doctors gathered in Chicago, where Obama will address them Monday.
When Katrina Gossett arrived at the University of Chicago Law School three years ago, she heard about a professor who'd told a class it was a waste of money to make accommodations for students who need a wheelchair.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, the former Chicago Public Schools chief and basketball buddy of President Obama, says the "marketplace" will work to keep university costs down.
It was all the buzz this last week of school -- the Kanye West benefit concert for CPS was Thursday. And 3,000 Chicago Public Schools students were the envy of peers at the six high schools selected. A two-hour concert and Q-and- A with the megastar was reward for meeting academic, attendance and discipline goals. What a reward.
The state's top auditor called for a criminal probe of the suburban Cook County regional education office after an audit found that the director repeatedly used a government credit card for personal expenses and approved questionable payments to relatives on his payroll. Auditor General William Holland's report Thursday focused on Regional Supt. Charles A. Flowers, whose state-funded office has amassed a nearly $1 million deficit.
U.S. veterans will soon be able to attend DePaul University -- essentially for free.
Up to 1,000 Chicago Public Schools non-classroom employees will lose their jobs this year under a reorganization to save $100 million. About half the layoffs will hit central office -- 27 percent of employees there -- in the next two weeks, while another 500 will be cut from citywide positions over the next year, sources said.
Gov. Pat Quinn has appointed an independent commission to review admission practices at the University of Illinois.
Laura Mueller-Soppart knew Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service was her dream school after she visited last year.
Without a scholarship, Social Justice High School student Armando Medina knew he and his Southwest Side family would have a tough time finding the money to send him to college. So when Roosevelt University announced in 2006 that it would give full scholarships to any student at his school who graduated with good grades and college entrance exam scores, Medina studied that much harder.
There are 69,000 people who work for public universities in Illinois, and none of them is paid as much as Ron Zook, the University of Illinois' football coach, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis shows.
In 2002, the University of Illinois shook up IllinoisVentures, the company it had set up to help commercialize its most promising research discoveries -- in part because trustees objected to the $300,000 salary paid to its chief executive.
Louis Gornick can claim a title no one else can: highest paid chef at a public university in Illinois.
When it came time to ask a girl to prom this year, Gary Lee, a senior at Loyola Academy in Wilmette, didn't just . . . ask. He dressed up as Aladdin, made a "magic carpet" out of a rug and a skateboard and rolled up to Alissa Pump in the Loyola cafeteria to pop the question. "It worked perfectly," Gary said. "Would you be able to turn that down?"
As a teenager during the Great Depression, Eleanor Benz, now 90, watched her parents struggle to provide for seven children.
Corliss High School senior Loreal Latimer is set for graduation today --and years to come.
Chico DeBarge is no stranger to any stage. He's the youngest brother of Motown's popular DeBarge family and is preparing to release his sixth solo CD. But on a recent morning he stood at the center of the basketball court at the Emerson School for Visual Performing Arts in Gary. Student David Johnson, 12, asked DeBarge why he went to jail.
A light went on in Oneal Clash's inventive mind. And the same holds true for his invention: a transparent mannequin that lights up when a student correctly performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The mannequin's brain, heart and lung components are connected to a computer that electronically measures compressions and breathing. Clash, formerly of Joliet, got the idea while teaching CPR in 2003.
