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Would-be freshmen pitching their talents to principals of the city's most exclusive public high schools on videos, DVDs -- and even a private piano recital. Principals picking kids who never took an admission test or filled out a required application. Parents left in the dark about a new way to enter the city's coveted college prep high schools.

Michael Scott -- a consensus builder with a 25-year history with Mayor Daley -- will be asked to return as Chicago Board of Education president in a shake-up that may include other board members, City Hall sources said Tuesday.

Carol Marin: Paul Vallas is ready to run again. "Cook County is broken, and I like fixing things that are broken." The speed-talking, reform-minded maverick who was CEO of Chicago Public Schools under Mayor Daley, then lost the 2002 gubernatorial primary to Rod Blagojevich by just 25,000 votes, went on to make a national name rescuing school districts in Philadelphia and New Orleans.

A Niles Township school superintendent made $411,500 last year -- a record in a year that saw top public elementary and high school administrators' pay climb past $400,000 for the first time. But the taxpayer tab for Neil Codell, 56, didn't stop after he left his post June 30.Codell continued to receive his superintendent's salary

CTA President Ron Huberman, an all-purpose mayoral troubleshooter with no background in education, will be appointed Tuesday to run the nation’s third largest school system

Karen May admits to middle-of-the-night anxiety spells over the daunting challenge of coming up with the money to put her daughter, now a high school senior, through college.

CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS Students at two more Chicago public schools are suing over what they say were illegal strip-searches by school security staffers during hunts for contraband that was never found.

ROBBINSVILLE, N.C. -- Teachers in this small rural town's school district are awaiting a state appeals court ruling to see if they'll be required to submit to random tests for drugs and alcohol.

A victims' rights group is urging officials at a private Christian high school on the West Side to explain why they forced out a star football player after a female teacher allegedly molested him on campus late last year

Akeem Nathaniel still remembers what would happen to Marshall High School basketball players who misbehaved in class, disrespected teachers or failed to do homework: Coaches, brandishing a heavy wooden paddle, would take seven or eight full shots.