Eliminating the Education Department won’t erase student loans. Borrowers will still be responsible for repaying their debt.

Are cellphones a useful tool or a distraction in the classroom? According to Gov. JB Pritzker, they’re a distraction, and he has proposed banning them during classroom instruction time. Pritzker ...

The Trump administration's plan to dismantle the US Department of Education has caused intense arguments in the Illinois ...

More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump’s ...

New Jersey and 19 other U.S. states have taken the Trump administration to court over its proposed cuts to the Department of ...

The Illinois state flag is sometimes derided as an “SOB” — a state “Seal on a Bedsheet.” The white banner emblazoned with the ...

Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington is among 60 universities the federal Department of Education is investigating for ...

The schools under scrutiny include dozens of state schools and two Ivy Leagues. A number of private schools are also being ...

Gov. JB Pritzker delivered more harsh criticism against President Donald Trump’s administration over attempts to drastically ...

CHICAGO — John Petruszak opened his email Feb. 27 to find a message he called “shocking”: the federal Department of Housing ...

The remarks also came days after the U.S. Department of Agriculture terminated a $26.3 million grant to the Illinois State ...

At least 50 staffers were fired in Chicago or pushed out, including the entire Office for Civil Rights. The layoffs are part ...