The last time State Sen. James Meeks spent much time in New Trier territory, it was Sept. 2 of 2008, and he arrived with more than 1,000 Chicago children and parents to register for school in protest over the inequalities of school funding. The senator, D-15th, and pastor of the 24,000-member Salem Baptist Church returned to the North Shore Tuesday, this time at the invitation of United We Learn.
A handful of Chicago Public Schools students will be allowed to immediately transfer out of Fenger High School, which was jarred by the beating death of a student earlier this year, according to an agreement reached Tuesday.
Under fire from black aldermen, Chicago Public Schools CEO Ron Huberman denied today that a new admissions policy for elite schools was a ploy to free up seats for middle-class white families tired of paying private school tuition.
A new admissions policy for elite Chicago public schools is little more than a plot to free up seats for middle-class white families tired of paying private school tuition, black aldermen charged Monday.
Census tracts -- not race -- will play a key role in deciding admission to Chicago's coveted magnet and selective-enrollment schools under a new proposal up for a Chicago School Board vote on Dec. 16.
The economy appears to be taking a toll on Catholic school enrollment in the Archdiocese of Chicago. The number of elementary and secondary students in the system -- which includes 255 schools in Cook and Lake counties -- dropped by roughly 4.5 percent this year, or 4,158 kids, figures show.
A new admissions policy for elite Chicago Public Schools is little more than a plot to free up seats for middle-class white families tired of paying private school tuition, black aldermen charged Monday.
The National Science Foundation says that America's push to turn out more highly skilled professionals armed with doctoral degrees in scientific and high-tech fields has made progress.
NEW YORK -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ordered the city's public schools to start using student achievement data in the evaluations of teachers who are up for tenure this school year.
SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Student Assistance Commission is offering savings on prepaid tuition contracts now through Monday.
Cell phones, the subject of tugs of war between parents, teachers and students across the nation, are taking on a new role in the classroom: learning tool.
The University of Illinois Board of Trustees filed a breach-of-contract suit Wednesday against the architecture and engineering firms tapped to design and build a 750-bed residence hall and convocation center.
In a litter-strewn, vacant lot in Englewood, steps away from three houses of worship, a billboard went up Tuesday, asking, essentially, what is the price of a child's life. Punctuated by an empty school desk, the sign blared a "$5,000 Reward" for information leading to arrests and convictions in shootings or killings of schoolchildren.
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.
