Illinois high school juniors will have to take the ACT to graduate starting spring 2025. This comes at a time when most colleges and universities are again requiring students to take entrance exams for the admissions process.

The district’s plan calls for training on alternative discipline practices and aims to focus on the “root cause” of student behavior.

Roughly 12% of Chicago residents age 16 to 24 are not working or in school. Black teens are most impacted.

lllinois lawmakers overhauled K-12 funding seven years ago and promised to 'adequately fund' every district by 2027. A new report finds that won’t happen until 2034, unless more education money is budgeted every year.

Organizers of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago are inviting high school students to design buttons and other memorabilia.