WASHINGTON -- Roughly one-fourth of the nation's kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that now will see minority children become the majority by 2023.
LONDON — The city of Liverpool already has a Beatles museum and its airport is named after John Lennon. Now a local university says it rolling out a graduate program entirely devoted to the Fab Four.
When the state of Illinois joined the Midwest Student Exchange Program two years ago, it opened the door for Illinois residents to receive thousands of dollars in discounts to attend colleges in nearby states. But there was a catch: First, at least one Illinois school had to sign up for the program and offer similar discounts to some out-of-state students.
The dust has settled from Monday's emotional meeting of Indian Prairie School District 204's board and more than 100 residents angered by the district's reaction to the alleged sexual assault of a Gregory Middle School student by two classmates. Now, written statements have been released, with Superintendent Stephen Daeschner asking for parents' "understanding" and the alleged victim's father calling his remarks the latest in a "long litany of excuses ..."
Facing a steep drop in its endowment, Northwestern University says its tuition, room and board will rise 3.6 percent this fall, -- to nearly $50,000. But a Northwestern spokesman said the school has no plans for salary cuts or major layoffs and described the tuition increase as its smallest in 40 years. Scholarships will increase by 10 percent to $86 million.
Chicago School Board members Wednesday approved plans to shutter or shake up 16 schools, despite angry complaints that they didn't tour all the buildings or read any transcripts of the public hearings.
Closing a school, any school, is heart-wrenching. That decision, it follows, should be done only after rigorous and careful analysis.
Would-be freshmen pitching their talents to principals of the city's most exclusive public high schools on videos, DVDs -- and even a private piano recital. Principals picking kids who never took an admission test or filled out a required application. Parents left in the dark about a new way to enter the city's coveted college prep high schools.
Three teenage boys are shot to death in broad daylight and our city barely sighs.
Steve Lipshultz will be honored as 2009 Chess Educator of the Year today. But perhaps he couldn't have done it without Dennis Rodman.
Six of 22 schools will be spared closure or shakeups, Chicago public school officials said Monday, just two days before a School Board vote on the issue. The schools spared are Peabody, Yale, Hamilton, Holmes, Global Visions High and Las Casas High, said Monique Bond, a spokeswoman for new Schools CEO Ron Huberman.
ELKHART, Ind.---- Donna Sharp made a good living even without a high school diploma, earning about $19 an hour putting stripes on recreational vehicles in a northern Indiana county known as the RV capital of the world.
Is Michael Scott that good, or is Mayor Daley's bench of trusted political lieutenants that thin?
Police and DePaul University officials ordered an evacuation of a library on the Lincoln Park campus following a bomb threat Thursday morning.
The social work team is available to students and staff at a north suburban high school Thursday after a school employee killed himself in the school Wednesday evening.
The Chicago charter school difference isn't much of a difference, at least not on the high school level, a new study released Tuesday indicates.
The Chicago charter school difference isn't much of a difference, at least not on the high school level, a new study released Tuesday indicates.
A police investigation has concluded the death of a 10-year-old boy at his Evanston elementary school two weeks ago was a suicide. Meanwhile, the boy's fifth-grade teacher is on administrative leave as school officials probe how Aquan Lewis came to be unsupervised for a length of time -- which is a question the boy's mother was asking Tuesday.
In the Land of Lincoln, the first building erected and paid for in the 16th president's honor in his home state sits virtually empty. Instead of serving last week as a center for celebrations of Abraham Lincoln's legacy, Lincoln Hall on the University of Illinois' Urbana-Champaign campus is largely void of activity. The classes normally attended by 18,000 students each semester have been moved elsewhere as the crumbling building awaits repair.
ATLANTA -- Historically black colleges and universities, which for decades have been educating students who can't afford to go -- or can't imagine going -- elsewhere, have been particularly challenged by the nation's economic meltdown.
A teacher-parent coalition expanded its fight over Chicago classrooms to corporate boardrooms Saturday, picketing a downtown McDonald's restaurant and nearby Walgreens store to protest corporate funding of Renaissance 2010.
The big box of gears, wires, sensors and expensive electronics that arrived at Julian High School about six weeks ago is now nearly a robot.
When Maria Ruiz-Santana, of Elgin, talks about the day a suicidal gunman shot her in the throat during her geology class at Northern Illinois University, she sounds as if she's describing a nightmare from long ago. "It feels like it happened to me years and years ago," said a calm, upbeat Ruiz-Santana, 21, who was among the 25 people shot in the Cole Hall lecture.
The handwoven quilt arrived last year at Northern Illinois University after five students were killed in a shooting during class last Feb. 14. A simple quilt featuring drawings by elementary students in Ohio and the words "We are thankful,'' it has had quite a journey: from a New Jersey school where students' families died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; to a Catholic school in Mississippi devastated by Hurricane Katrina; to an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pa., where five students were fatally wounded in 2006 by a milk truck driver; to Virginia Tech, where 32 students were gunned down two years ago.
Armed with his wife's doctors' notes and medical records, Roger McReynolds pleaded with the Joliet Grade School Board on Wednesday night to allow his wife to wear a respiratory mask while teaching. "It's not like I'm asking for the moon. Please do this for my wife," he said.
Fourth-graders at St. Peter Lutheran School in Arlington Heights join in reading Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address in unison Thursday, marking the 200th birthday of the 16th president. Thousands of students across Illinois and elsewhere joined in the recitation in an attempt to break the record of 223,363 readers.
A provocative issue of the Stevenson High School student newspaper featuring stories about teenagers "hooking up" has disappeared from circulation, leading some to wonder whether it was students or the administration that snatched them up from the newsstands.
Standing on the site of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln distilled the grief of a nation into ten sentences in the now-iconic Gettysburg Address.
Nearly 150 years after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, you’d think we’d already know all there is to know about the man. But a St. Xavier University professor has recently made a surprising discovery about the famous debates Lincoln had with Stephen Douglas.
In honor of Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday today, a number of Lake County schools will join other Lincoln fans and students around the country by reading the nation's 16th president's Gettysburg Address in an effort to set a world record for the most people simultaneously reading aloud.
New Chicago Schools CEO Ron Huberman has ordered a "thorough review'' of five years of student mistreatment allegations following revelations that only 68 employees have been forced to leave their jobs in that time despite hundreds of complaints of "improper contact." However, the mother of one fourth-grade boy who contends his teacher slammed him into a desk said Huberman's actions don't go far enough.
Jimmy Avant and Adrian Jones had made it safely to the shore of the Fox River in their leaky paddle boat.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to blow the lid off "hidden benefits'' in educator salaries following Chicago Sun-Times' disclosures that some superintendent salaries in the state have climbed past $400,000.
When Cynthia Latimer walked into Piper's Banquets in Aurora on Thursday night, she was met by longtime educator and community leader Henry Cowherd Jr. And Cowherd simply said to her, "Welcome to the club." "The club," in this case, is the recipients of the Outstanding African-American Award, given annually to an African-American leader from Aurora who has made a lasting impact on the community.
Robert Klie's research could lead to a far greener form of power -- imagine, for instance, your body heat powering your cell phone.
Every penny and benefit an Illinois public school educator earns may not be captured in salary figures kept by the state -- meaning educators could be taking home hundreds or thousands of dollars more than what's reported publicly.
Add another accomplishment for Whitney Young Magnet High School.
He liked to crank up Elvis Presley's "Blue Hawaii" and sing along to the stereo.
A new report co-authored by a University of Illinois at Chicago political scientist features proposed reforms to help prevent corruption in Illinois government.
A judge today ordered Oakton School, District 65 and the Evanston Police Department to preserve all evidence related to the death of a 10-year-old boy found Tuesday hanging from a hook inside a washroom.
Feb. 5: Members of the Indian Prairie School District 204 Board of Education could be confronted during their regularly-scheduled Monday meeting by the parents of a middle school student from Naperville who was allegedly sexually assaulted off-campus last year by two classmates.
Amid news reports that Evanston elementary school student Aquan Lewis spoke of suicide the day he was found hanging from a washroom hook, a District 65 spokeswoman affirmed Friday that teachers in the district take suicide threats seriously and receive yearly training in recognizing suicidal thoughts.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Latino students outnumbered black students in 2007 for the first time in Illinois, placing new demands on schools already struggling to raise test scores and graduation rates, according to a new study.
More African-American seniors at Chicago's Whitney Young Magnet High School passed the college-level English Language Advanced Placement exam last year than at any other school in the world, public or private, officials said Wednesday.
Michael Scott -- a consensus builder with a 25-year history with Mayor Daley -- will be asked to return as Chicago Board of Education president in a shake-up that may include other board members, City Hall sources said Tuesday. "We're looking at the board. Many members have been there for many years," Daley said after defending his appointment of CTA President Ron Huberman as schools CEO.
Both campuses of St. Frances Xavier Warde elementary school are closed today because of the fire at Holy Name Cathedral.
