A Pennsylvania educator has been selected as top administrator in Diamond Lake Elementary District 76, the first change in that position in nearly a generation. Joseph A. Petrella, superintendent of the Gateway School district covering an area about...

Parents of youngsters in Libertyville Elementary District 70 will have a new option next year with the introduction of a fee-based, full-day kindergarten. The offering will be available to 10 students in each of the district’s four elementary school...

The top educator at Oak Grove Elementary District 68 is leaving at the end of the school year for a position that will give her a closer connection to the classroom. Tax levies and budgets are important, but no longer are they among the most enjoyab...

The Cook Memorial Public Library District board soon will join the ranks of suburban government agencies holding paperless meetings. Starting in March, members of the Libertyville-based panel should be able to use the Internet to read the documents...

Budgets continue to be a concern for most Lake County communities, but there have been signs of life after the economic body blows of the past few years. And maybe even a guarded sense things may be loosening up. Whether that happens is still uncert...

Schools always take the biggest chunk of property taxes, making up roughly 70 percent of a suburban property owner's tax bill. So when tax rates for 84 suburban school districts average 10 percent higher than last year, it's easy to suspect the sch...