Marja Mills

Members of the class of 1992 will graduate with more than a diploma this spring from three Carpentersville area high schools. In a narrow vote, the District 300 school board...

In hundreds of classrooms across the Elgin area, it was the students` turn to ask the questions Tuesday as they returned to school after a bitter 21-day teachers strike, one...

Negotiations between the Elgin Unit District 46 school board and striking teachers continued early Monday in hopes of ending a long and bitter strike over teacher pay raises that has...

Administrators and teachers in Elgin Unit District 46, where a strike enters its 11th school day Monday, had their first face-to-face talks in four days Sunday, but little progress was...

For the first time since 1,700 Elgin-area teachers went on strike, negotiators met Wednesday night to seek an end to the bitter salary dispute. As the strike entered its third...

Furious that a teachers` strike again has cancelled school for thousands of Elgin area children, some parents launched grassroots efforts Tuesday to force a quick end to the massive walkout....

When Elgin-area teachers went on strike Monday, canceling class for 28,000 students at 42 schools, the feeling of frustration was infuriatingly familiar for teacher Wally Haskins. It was the seventh...

Arthur Peekel, one of 12 finalists for the Illinois State Board of Education`s Teacher of the Year award, teaches a ''Future Studies'' class at Rolling Meadows High School. But one...

When Rickey Allen was fatally shot Thursday by a Hoffman Estates police officer, it was a clear-cut case of a cop doing what was needed to protect another person, according...

A 16-year-old mentally disabled girl, who sparked a week`s frantic search when she ran away from the Little City Foundation home in Palatine Township, was reunited with her family Monday....