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Illinois Senate Democrats are proposing a $156 million boost in primary and secondary education next year. Key budget neg...
State universities and community colleges have agreed to gradually pick up their own retirement costs under a preliminary dea...
The SIU Board of Trustees, which has been disfunctional the last few months, finally acted on several items. Joe Ragusa has m...
Graduation Ceremonies for SIU are set forthis weekend.SIU Chancellor Rita Cheng says it is a busy time for the 3,600 students...
The Illinois Student Assistance Commission is making a 10 percent cut in grants given through its Monetary Awards Program bec...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon is encouraging lawmakers to create a committee to study how Illinois funds education and recommend ways...
Two students are in Franklin County Jail after a bomb threat at Zeigler-Royalton High School.17-year-olds Darrel Dalton of Ro...
A Normal Community High School teacher has been honored for tackling and subduing a student who pulled a gun in class last ye...
More than 1,000 students selected earlier this year will get the chance to spend time outdoors and help preserve Illinois'...
You think a car averaging 40 miles per gallon is fuel efficient? Think again.A team of University of Illinois students has de...
A teacher from Herrin Elementary school is dead after a crash near Centralia.58-year-old Vicki Bundy pulled in front of a pic...
Budget cuts are to blame for two Southern Illinois school districts voting to cut staff.Carrier Mills-Stonefort District 2, a...
The Marion Community School District #2 is moving forward with a plan to keep students at Adams Jr. High.The plan, titled &ls...
SIU President Glenn Poshard says he’s sorry to the University for any discredit it has received because of his feud wit...
Schools may no longer be used as polling places.Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka and the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Polic...
Giant City School will let go of seven teachers due to budget cuts in the next school year.The cuts will also result in the l...
School closings in the area due to winter weather in the area, brought to you by Crosswalk Community Action. Let them help yo...
Harrisburg High School is in hot water after a graduate of the school claims the administration allowed racist behavior on ca...
Candidates at John. A Logan College's forum for Board of Trustee candidates Tuesday night answered questions on seven top...
Accusations of nepotism on John A. Logan’s Board of Trustees is a heated issue in the race for two open seats on the bo...
The Jackson County Board is expected to vote tomorrow to incorporate Union and Alexander counties into the Jackson-Perry Regi...
SIU is expected to propose a 5-percent tuition hike at its next Board of Trustees meeting.The proposal would increase incomin...
Today will be business as usual for Marion High School after a lockdown at the school yesterday afternoon.Principal Steve Smi...
Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon announced potential education reforms that would make college more affordable to Illinois students.She ...
West Frankfort approved a land-swap that is expected to help the school district renovate or rebuild the Frankfort High Schoo...
Education officials say low-income Illinois students who want to participate in free food summer programs can apply soon.Prog...
The State Board of Education honored 624 schools for academic progress and consistent high performance in 2012 by naming them...
John A. Logan college will receive more software for finance classes in what is the biggest in-kind donation in the college&r...
Enrollment is down at SIU Carbondale this Spring by over 1,000 students.Total enrollment is 17,152 students for the spring se...
A middle school teacher in Pinckneyville has been suspended and will likely be fired after leaving what was called, “an...
The Illinois State Board of Education has made it tougher for students to be considered proficient on state tests.The board v...
Legislation designed to promote the education of elementary school children about sexual assault and abuse will be signed by ...
The Ewing-Northern School Board has reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with the Ewing-Northern Federation of Tea...
Three weeks ago today 26 people, 20 of them children were killed in a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. That event sp...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois students might be ready for the winter break from school, but education officials are...
Twenty one registered nurses will be formally recognizedas Southern Illinois Healthcare's first class of RN Nurse Residen...
CHICAGO (AP) — University of Chicago officials are puzzled by a mystery piece of mail seemingly linked to the Indiana J...
MIAMI (AP) — School administrators, teachers, and parents will put our children back in school this morning across the ...
TROY, Ill. (AP) — A southern Illinois high school was locked down for about three hours when two bullets were found.The...
Four local school districts are the recipient of grants given to 110 schools around the state, totaling around $14 millio...
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois will get nearly $35 million if federal aid for early childhood education.The Race...
Ten students at SIU have been arrested following an inident on Sunday.A fight broke out near Mae Smith and Grinnell Hall on t...
DES PLAINES, Ill. (AP) — Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez has ordered her office's sex crimes divisio...
The Terrace Dining Room next tothe John A. Logan College cafeteria will officially be renamed the Les McCollum Room in a dedi...
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale has received an award for diversity in higher education.The university was awarded...
PALATINE, Ill. (AP) - Illinois Lt. Gov. Sheila Simon has joined the campaign against texting and driving.Simon on Thursday vi...
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) - The man who started the geography department at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville more t...
AYP and NCLB/Outcomes to DateThe 2010 school year was the tipping point when 51 percent of Illinois Public Schools did not ma...
