A former publications and copy center director for Chicago State University was indicted today on fraud and official-misconduct charges for allegedly bilking the university out of $65,104.
As students around the country anxiously wait for college acceptance letters, their parents are sweating the looming tuition bills at public universities.
The Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund has filed suit against Northern Trust Co., alleging the bank and investment management company improperly managed fund assets by placing them in risky, long-term securities that plummeted in value.
A $174 million plan to renovate and add on to New Trier High School's Winnetka campus went solidly down in defeat Tuesday night. The project called for demolishing the east and west sides of the Winnetka Campus, including the Tech Arts building, Music/Performing Arts building, cafeteria, Gates Gym and the boiler plant.
Though he hit the one-year mark last week as CEO of Chicago Public Schools, 38-year-old Ron Huberman is still doing his homework. The man Mayor Daley tapped as his chief of staff, head of the Office of Emergency Management and CTA president has already tackled some stiff assignments at the Chicago Public Schools. He's still working on others.
The Cubs and the Chicago Park District are mapping plans to build a $2 million replica of Wrigley Field for high school baseball two miles west of the real thing. The proposed baseball stadium -- complete with ivy-covered brick walls, a Wrigley-style roofline and a turf field -- would be at Addison and Rockwell near Lane Tech High School.
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Northwestern University says the number of freshman applications for this fall has increased 9 percent over last year.
Another controversy is brewing over a statue that's supposed to be on display at a local public university -- but isn't. Instead, the bust of Honest Abe ended up at a frat party. University of Illinois at Chicago undergraduate student government president Damian Wolak used student funds last fall to buy the bust of Abraham Lincoln.
Aaron won the National Geographic Geography Bee on Jan. 22, participated in by other fourth- through-eighth-grade OLH students. The contest is designed to help spark interest in the subject.
Former Chicago Buildings Commissioner Mary Richardson-Lowry — the teacher’s daughter who survived the gang-infested public schools of crime-ridden Compton, Calif. — was chosen by Mayor Daley today as Chicago Board of Education president.
Parents of Keller Gifted Magnet students Wednesday blasted a proposal to kick the second-highest-scoring elementary school in the state out of its Mount Greenwood home to solve overcrowding at a neighborhood school. "Why disrupt an institution that is working well?'' Keller mom Sherry Swan asked Chicago School Board members.
College and university endowments suffered huge losses in the fiscal year that ended last June, a new report finds, but stronger investment returns in recent months point to a rebound.
SAN FRANCISCO -- For years, American colleges and universities have focused on getting more students to seek higher education. Now they want to make sure more of their students leave campus with a diploma.
The credit cards of 89 Chicago Board of Education employees have been yanked in the midst of an investigation into questionable spending by the last two Chicago School Board presidents and their staff, officials revealed Monday.
Northwestern University's new Public Service Fellowship program is offering 100 percent forgiveness of federal student loans for alumni who work as attorneys or managers in the public sector for 10 years, the school announced Tuesday.
On college campuses, female undergraduates have outnumbered men and outperformed them academically for years, but a new report out Tuesday finds those gaps have stopped growing in key areas including enrollment and bachelor's degrees.
You could live in a $600,000 home within walking distance of Wrigley Field, yet when your kids test to get into one of Chicago's elite selective-enrollment schools, they may be competing mostly with children from the poorest neighborhoods in the city.
The controversial statue is staying put -- at least for now. State Rep. Monique Davis (D-Chicago) says she is seeking a legal opinion before relinquishing the $25,000 statue of an African slave that Chicago State University says belongs to it and wants returned. The flap over the statue -- named "Defiance" -- was disclosed in Michael Sneed's Chicago Sun-Times column Friday.
University of Illinois interim President Stanley Ikenberry says the school will probably raise tuition for incoming freshmen by at least 9 percent this summer.
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Louisiana's top education board asked Thursday whether a schools superintendent from Chicago should be forced to reimburse the state for misusing his state-owned vehicle.
Stevenson High School's student newspaper editors ended their tumultuous relationship with school administrators this week.
Money appears to be high on the minds of this year's college freshmen, reflecting the influence last year of the struggling economy on enrollment, financial aid and life goals, a survey released Thursday says.
The University of Illinois has raised the cost of student housing on its three campuses by up to 6 percent and increased fees paid by students.
Stevenson High School's student newspaper editors severed their tumultuous relationship with school administrators this week.
The first question some kids asked Tuesday after learning Chicago's Marshall High faces a staff shakeup was this:
A South Side man — the latest to be charged in the videotaped beating of Fenger High School honors student Derrion Albert — was ordered held without bail this afternoon.
A new Chicago Public School anti-violence campaign is sending the bulk of $30 million in federal stimulus dollars this school year to 38 high schools identified by officials Tuesday.
Storied Phillips High -- where Nat "King" Cole once walked the halls -- and basketball powerhouse Marshall High School are among 14 Chicago public schools expected to face massive shakeups, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
FAIRFAX, Va. -- President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he'll ask Congress for $1.35 billion to extend an education grant program for states, saying that getting schools right "will shape our future as a nation."
School closings are “painful,” but accepting the failing status quo is worse, Mayor Daley said Tuesday, embracing the Chicago Board of Education’s decision to close, consolidate or otherwise shake up 14 public schools.
The recession has reached the executive suites of the nation's public universities and colleges, putting a stop to a string of large annual pay increases for school presidents.
URBANA, Ill. -- Officials at the University of Illinois say they're creating a Web site that will allow people to review the school's budget and give feedback.
Applications to the University of Chicago are up 42 percent over last year, making the pool of undergraduate applicants the largest in the school's history.
When 15-year-old Marco Cattani was having difficulty in his high school English course, his parents found the perfect remedy. The Cattani family enlisted the help of Tutor Doctor, a one-on-one, in-home tutoring service that recently opened a branch in the western suburbs.
BELLEVILLE, Ill. -- The Illinois Community College Sustainability Network is to receive a $1.7 million state grant to expand green education.
The University of Chicago has received 42 percent more undergraduate applications for its 2010 fall freshman class.
AUSTIN, Texas -- New history standards that will determine what Texas public school students will be learning for the next decade are coming up for a first vote.
The most dangerous stretches of streets around 12 Chicago public schools will be protected by the "eyes and ears" of paid citizen safety patrols under one phase of a $60 million anti-violence campaign unveiled Tuesday. Such groups also will be called upon to function as paid, pseudo "truancy officers," visiting the homes of truant kids at 38 of the system's most violent schools to find out why students are cutting school. Chicago Schools CEO Ron Huberman made clear Tuesday he is reaching out to the community for help.
