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 ...

High school and community college students in Illinois will soon be able to earn automatic admission to most state public ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...