With most lawsuits, you can read the pleadings and decide who’s the bad guy. But in this case filed by the Children's Habilitation Center, I can’t find a…

Most press conferences don’t provide breakfast pastries. But in mid-May, when the University of Illinois announced that every public four-year college in…

Midstate College President Meredith Bunch says low and declining enrollment has forced the sudden closure of the 131-year-old private institution in...

Illinois has 852 school districts — the third highest number of any state in the nation. Some are just single schools, with fewer than a hundred students.…

A few months ago, the Illinois State Board of Education voted to ask lawmakers for $15.6 billion to fund public schools. Now, a newly appointed board…

Graduate students who work as research assistants alongside university professors could win the right to go on strike. Current law excludes them from…

Almost two years after Illinois overhauled its school funding formula, educators are still trying to tie up a few loose ends that got overlooked in the…

Ro’Derick Zavala grew up in Chicago at 21st and State Street — the northern tip of a four-mile corridor lined with 8,000 units of public housing. His…

lllinois has historically ranked second in the nation when it comes to high school graduates leaving the state to go to college. But there's good news for…

A new Illinois law will give gifted children the chance to move ahead in public schools. The Illinois Accelerated Placement Act, just signed into law,…