Chicago School Board members hired a former federal prosecutor to review the spending of board members and their employees following questions about credit card charges by School Board President Michael Scott.
Nearly 12,000 Illinois public school seniors skipped the mandatory 2009 Prairie State Achievement Exam -- a test that can trigger school or district sanctions -- and will have to take it this spring, state education officials say.
For the people at the heart of an uproar a decade ago over the expulsions of six black boys from a Decatur school, reminders of the national scrutiny the town endured and the divide the situation created are never far away.
Three students with Chicago area ties -- Stephanie Bell, Russell Perkins and Daniel Shih -- are among the 32 American men and women named Saturday as 2009 Rhodes Scholars, considered one of the world's most prestigious academic honors.
Three students with Chicago area ties are among the 32 American men and women named Saturday as 2009 Rhodes Scholars, considered one of the nation’s most prestigious academic honors. The Rhodes scholarships provide for all expenses for two or three years of study — and in some instances four years — at the University of Oxford in England.
More than 1,000 friends, family members and colleagues gathered at Holy Family Church on the near west side today to remember Chicago School Board President Michael Scott. “He worked 24 hours a day for the children and the people of the city of Chicago,” recalled Mayor Daley, who tearfully called Scott “one of my best friends.”
DePaul University's schools of theater and music would finally have the world-class facilities to match their top-notch talent, thanks to a 10-year master plan for the Lincoln Park campus approved Thursday.
DePaul University’s schools of theater and music would finally have the world-class facilities to match their top-notch talent, thanks to a 10-year master plan for the Lincoln Park campus approved Thursday.
Chicago Police on Wednesday revealed their strongest evidence yet that Michael Scott took his own life -- gunshot residue found on Scott's left hand -- but the family of the Chicago School Board president was weighing an independent autopsy nonetheless.
Social-networking tools such as Facebook and Twitter can help community college students become more engaged in their academics, a report out this week finds.
Glenn Poshard chose Rita Cheng -- provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at UWM since May 2005 -- to succeed Samuel Goldman, who has served as interim chancellor of the 20,350-student Carbondale campus since spring 2008. Goldman is a former university trustee.
Some of Chicago's most powerful people crumpled with disbelief and pain Monday upon hearing the Cook County medical examiner's ruling that School Board President Michael Scott died at his own hand.
The number of international students in the U.S. -- and the number of U.S. college students studying abroad -- are at all-time highs, new data reveals.
CHAMPAIGN -- University of Illinois graduate instructors plan to strike following this weekend's contract negotiations.
Chicago Public Schools is expanding its team of traveling security officers so the district has more available to staff potential hotspots.
After an emotional appeal from a straight-A student facing deportation in 33 days, a City Council committee agreed Friday to champion the cause of Rigo Padilla and others caught in the switches while awaiting immigration reform.
A chemical spill caused by students "experimenting" in a science lab prompted a HazMat response Friday afternoon at a West Side high school.
Poring over data about eighth-graders who applied to the city's elite college preps, Chicago Public Schools officials discovered an alarming pattern. High-scoring kids were being rejected simply because of the order in which they listed their college prep preferences. "I couldn't believe it,'' schools CEO Ron Huberman said. "It's terrible.''
For the first time, the income levels of students' neighborhoods will help determine whether kids win seats at one of the city's elite college prep high schools or elementary schools for the gifted. And amid an ongoing federal investigation into whether clout clouded admissions, college prep principals will face a huge new layer of oversight.
A greater share of prized Chicago magnet school seats would go to the brothers and sisters of current magnet students -- as well as to neighborhood kids -- under a long-awaited magnet admission plan expected to be unveiled this week.
The University of Chicago unveiled the designs today for a $100 million creative and performing arts center to be built on the southern end of the Hyde Park campus.
More than two-thirds of U.S. teachers disapprove of how their public schools are run, and 90 percent say "routine duties and paperwork" interfere with teaching, said a report released Monday. The report shows the need for a nationwide education overhaul, said U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
The Chicago public schools will expand its Arabic-language program to three more high schools, thanks to a three-year, $888,000 federal grant announced this morning.
Harry Potter's sport of choice, Quidditch, is taking flight at Northwestern University. The game, which traditionally features wizards flying around on brooms, has been adapted into an earthbound college sport, known as Muggle Quidditch.
Despite a burgeoning financial crisis that has forced a $43 million property tax increase and hundreds of job cuts, the Chicago Board of Education has found a $154,000-a-year job for an all-purpose mayoral troubleshooter.
Three Illinois universities and three liberal arts colleges are rated among the 100 best values in private higher education.
A Columbia College professor is alleging her conflict with the school is threatening an upcoming conference of international scholars.
Astronomer Edwin Hubble was the first to prove the existence of galaxies other than our own.
A new report by the National Center for Education Statistics found the passing bar of the state’s eighth-grade math test was the fourth lowest in the nation.
Chicago claimed five of the top 50-scoring public high schools in Illinois this year — but also 38 of the bottom ones.
Addison Trail catapulted over more than 200 other Illinois public high schools this year to land at No. 79 statewide in the annual Chicago Sun-Times Report Card rankings. The school’s jump, based on the average reading and math scores of 11th graders last school year, came even though the DuPage County school has been serving an increasingly diverse and needy population.
On one Illinois measurement, Kipling shined last school year. The school of 85 percent low-income kids in Chicago’s far south Washington Heights neighborhood leapfrogged over close to 400 other schools to land at No. 937 statewide among more than 2,200 Illinois public elementary schools.
The first set of teachers from Chicago charter schools to unionize signed a contract today that eliminates wide pay disparities, provides annual salary hikes of roughly four to seven percent, and caps class size at 29.
Despite the political furor caused by the videotaped beating death of Derrion Albert, only six of the 100 Fenger High School students living in Altgeld Gardens want to transfer out to Carver Military Academy, officials said today.
The number of students staying home sick with the flu is multiplying nationwide, and normally quiet school nurses' offices suddenly look like big-city emergency rooms, packed with students too ill to finish the day.
The Rev. Al Sharpton is calling on Chicago officials to help stop violence at a high school on the city’s South Side.
The election for Chicago Teachers Union officers is more than six months away, but five candidates already are gearing up for a run against President Marilyn Stewart -- including her own treasurer.
Kevin Rutter says he's really a shy person at heart. But in the 11 years he has been a high school teacher, he has discovered something else about himself.
