T he Illinois State Board of Education approved a nearly $11.4 billion budget request this week for the upcoming fiscal year, amounting to a 4.6% increase from this year, as the state prepares to ...

Illinois education officials are considering lowering the scores students need to be considered proficient in a subject on state standardized tests. At its May board meeting, the Illinois State ...

ISBE said the report card showed Illinois students in grades ... and strengthened by the state’s investments in Career and Technical Education. It’s equally exciting to see our youngest ...

SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois State Board of Education voted Wednesday to approve a budget request for the upcoming fiscal year of nearly $11.4 billion, a 4.6% increase over this year’s budget ...

The Illinois State Board of Education recently announced that starting next spring, it will use the ACT exam rather than the SAT. Both are standardized tests that measure students' proficiency in ...

Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file Share Illinois is pushing back on the Trump administration’s demand that the State Board of Education and school districts certify that they reject diversity ...

The U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights launched investigations into Chicago Public Schools, the Illinois State Board of Education and Deerfield Public Schools on March 20 for ...

Ted Sanders, who served as superintendent of the Illinois State Board of Education and worked in the education department in the President George H.W. Bush administration, died Sunday, Sept.