The Illinois State Board of Education recently released its 2024 report card for Illinois schools, showing the performance of districts and schools over the past year across the state. The annual ...

Despite a jump of nearly 3% from the 2022 to 2023 reports in teacher retention, the 2024 report showed some regression in that regard, with retention dropping from 90.2% in 2023 to 89.6% in 2024. ...

CHICAGO, (NBC) — As voters head to the polls on Election Day, some schools will still be in session. However, most students at Illinois public schools will have the day off. Election Day is an ...

Nineteen of the 22 Illinois schools in the Stateline Area were ranked either as commendable or exemplary — the top two tiers of the Illinois State Board of Education ranking system, according to ...

The Illinois State Board of Education crunches data annually to create an Overall Index Score for public school in the state. Here's a look at the scores in 2022-2023 and 20223-2024 of 22 schools ...

While most still lag behind state averages, many Illinois Quad-Cities school districts are showing growth in English Language Arts, math and science proficiency rates — along with improvements ...

High school student Kevin Guzman hears from a recruiter about the student supports available at Northern Illinois University at a college fair for undocumented students at Mansueto High School in ...

The 2024 report card also showed fewer students being required to take remedial math or English courses in community college after graduating from public schools in Illinois. That figure is 27.7% ...

The graduation rate among Illinois students hit a historic high, of nearly 88%, last school year, as did student performance on literacy exams, state officials announced Wednesday with the release of ...

A high school freshman in O’Fallon, Illinois, is at the center of a growing controversy after being banned from competing in a cross-country championship. Fourteen-year-old Cole Deering’s ...

Multiple Illinois high school marching bands emerged from competitions over the weekend with top overall and classification awards. The Morton marching band won the Class 2A title in the Bands of ...

Outraged parents flooded an Illinois school board meeting Monday over an announcement that the seventh and eighth grades would be cut from a bilingual school with just one month of notice. The ...