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.
Five students were arrested after a lunchroom fight at Fenger High School on Thursday, two weeks after President Obama dispatched two Cabinet members to the South Side school in the wake of Derrion Albert's videotaped fatal beating.
With the economy struggling, parents and students dared to hope this year might offer a break from rising college costs. Instead, they got another sharp increase.
A high school in west suburban St. Charles will be closed for the rest of the week after hundreds of students called in Tuesday with flu-like symptoms.
He was supposed to have delivered the knockout blow to Derrion Albert, the Fenger High School student whose beating death on video has been viewed around the world. But a smiling Eugene Bailey, 18, walked out of Cook County Jail Monday evening after charges against him were dropped, calling "Mama! Mama!" for his mother, who always insisted he was innocent.
University of Illinois Chancellor Richard Herman has resigned following months of pressure over the admissions scandal at the school's Urbana-Champaign campus.
Average tuition prices rose sharply again this fall as colleges passed much of the burden of their own financial problems on to recession-battered students and parents.
Gov. Quinn signed legislation Sunday restoring second-semester funding for nearly 138,000 low-income Illinois students who get grants through the state Monetary Award Program.
An 18-year-old accused in last month’s videotaped beating death of Fenger Academy High School’s Derrion Albert was released from prison this evening after prosecutors dropped the murder charges against him.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder earlier this month offered his prescription for youth violence and the kind of rage that caused the beating death of Chicago student Derrion Albert: "A comprehensive, coordinated approach ... that encompasses the latest research."
The Chicago Public Schools on Thursday offered a series of options to Fenger High School students who don’t feel safe because of the brawl that left 16-year-old Derrion Albert beaten to death.
Illinois lawmakers have restored scholarships for about 137,000 college students next semester, even though it’s not clear where state government will find the money. The House and Senate voted Thursday to give $205 million to the Monetary Award Program, which helps needy students pay for college.
State legislative leaders said they have agreed to come up with money for college financial aid.
A half-dozen University of Chicago law students spent hundreds of hours helping prepare arguments for a legal brief challenging Illinois’ forfeiture law that was submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court — a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that the vast majority of lawyers never have a chance to do.
It's not just because he's gay that Geneva High School senior Jordan Hunter was offended when a teacher implied homosexual artists should not get government funding. What also offended Hunter was a public schoolteacher standing in front of a group of minors and using the term "some black fag." "He's free to feel any way he wants, but (with him) being in a position of influence like that over children, I don't think he should be using that position to make statements like that," said Hunter, 17, of Geneva.
Acting in response to an honor student’s caught-on-video beating death, the Rev. Jesse Jackson joined Fenger Academy High School parents this morning as they escorted a group of students to the school on Chicago’s South Side.
An off-duty Chicago police officer was killed Monday when his car went out of control and rolled over on the Kennedy Expressway on the city's Northwest Side.
Even as college students rally to get lawmakers to restore funding to the state's main financial-aid program, one legislator is suggesting making it harder to qualify for that aid -- and possibly adding academic requirements to get it.
A popular math teacher at Chicago's Brother Rice High School has been abruptly transferred, prompting a number of students to rally in his support.
The state's failure to fully fund its main college financial-aid program has led many to wonder how students will foot their higher tuition bills.
Like many sports junkies, Steve spends every Thursday breaking down the weekend's football games before placing multiple bets at online gambling sites.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson and community activists say they've come up with a plan to counter the violence in the Far South Side neighborhood where 16-year-old honor student Derrion Albert was beaten to death.
Those trips to the Museum of Science and Industry taught you about genetics, coal mining and the Titanic. But a new permanent exhibit opening today promises something you've never seen on display in a museum before.
While U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder vowed help for cities fighting teen violence at a City Hall news conference Wednesday, the mom of one student charged with Derrion Albert's beating death protested outside, demanding justice for her son.
Mark Brown: It's easy to be cynical on a day that two members of President Obama's Cabinet come to town to take notice of our latest sensational child murder.
Eric Holder cannot coach every child's basketball team. The U.S. Attorney General can't check every child's homework each night.
Cool canines make doggone good reading companions for kids through the Sit Stay Read! literacy organization.
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan today announced a federal infusion of $500,000 to Fenger High School and its feeder elementary schools to stabilize the area following the death of 16-year-old Derrion Albert, captured on a “terrifying’’ video played nationwide.
Chicago officials and members of President Obama's cabinet met at a Downtown hotel Wednesday morning to discuss teenage violence in the city and how to combat it.
His invention helped revolutionize digital cameras. It also helped researchers better study the solar system, marine life and improve medical diagnostics and microsurgery because of the high quality images possible because of his work.
Chicago schools chief Ron Huberman -- Mayor Daley's former corruption-fighting chief of staff -- is being accused of a "significant management failure" that set the stage for alleged contract irregularities at the city's 911 center that cost taxpayers $2.25 million.
Chicago Teachers Union President Marilyn Stewart said Thursday that disruptive students should be taken out of regular classrooms and put in a separate school until they are ready to behave.
Rush University Medical Center has decided to require all of its employees, students and volunteers to get a seasonal flu shot, hoping to prevent workers from spreading flu to patients.
A former Walter Payton College Prep boys basketball coach was sentenced to three years probation Wednesday for groping a pair of 15-year-old female students.
Spare another mother, another father, another community, another school.
Students beware: The summer vacation you just enjoyed could be sharply curtailed if President Obama gets his way.
