Rock Island-Milan emails show timeline of response to mold exposure incident this summer
Cesar Toscano, Quad Cities Dispatch-Argus, December 8
CPS reports 2% increase in measles vaccination rate
Hope Moses, Chicago Tribune, December 5
Education Matters: How do school officials decide when to cancel classes?
Madison Lammert, Belleville News-Democrat, December 4
Pritzker signs bill allowing Illinois to issue state-specific vaccine guidelines
Maggie Dougherty, CNI/Champaign News-Gazette, December 2
Spartan Sisterhood at Oak Lawn Community High School offers ‘safe space’ for girls to learn and grow
Melinda Moore, Chicago Tribune, November 25
50 years after the birth of special education, some fear for its future under Trump
Cory Turner, NPR, December 3
Illinois State Board of Education extends timeline for public comment on school accountability overhaul
Samantha Smylie, Chalkbeat Chicago, December 3
CPS attendance stayed mostly the same amid immigration activity this fall, with big drops on some days
WBEZ, Chicago, December 3
D65 School Board impasse blocks path to any school closures
Richard Requena, Pioneer Press/Chicago Tribune, December 2
SIUC launches new dual enrollment program for southern Illinois high school students
Devin Kidd, KFVS, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, December 2
D209 grows dual degree program with Triton College
Amaris E. Rodriguez, Forest Park Review, November 18
Belleville District 201's The CAVE hosts career fair
Joshua Carter and Madison Lammert, Belleville News-Democrat, November 18
CPS culinary students assist in century-old gingerbread tradition at the Drake Hotel
Hope Moses, Chicago Tribune, November 20
Decatur students learn about foundry work and careers
Valerie Wells, Decatur Herald and Review, November 18
Sandburg hosts real-world career experience for students
Nida Tazeen, assisted by AI, Galesburg Register-Mail, November 19
Zion D6 schools closed two days by cybersecurity breach
Steve Sadin, Lake County News-Sun, December 2
Ball-Chatham board members balk at 'unprecedented' request from D186
Steven Spearie, Springfield State Journal-Register, December 2
“We want kids with a teacher”
Deborah Gertz Husar, Herald-Whig, Quincy, November 28
Orland District 230 finds ‘attendance matters’ campaign reducing chronic absenteeism
Addison Wright, Daily Southtown, Chicago and suburbs, November 30
Requests for new K-12 funding in Illinois likely to outstrip available resources
Peter Hancock, CNI/Belleville News-Democrat, November 24
School Groups Sue to Stop Dismantling of the Education Department
Michael C. Bender, New York Times, November 25
As immigration agents swept Chicago this fall, communities stepped in to get kids to school safely
Sarah Karp and Amy Qin, WBEZ/Chicago Sun-Times, December 2
CTU to cooperate with congressional inquiry over financial audits
Emmanuel Camarillo, Chicago Sun-Times, November 25
Student Fear and Absences Surge as Immigration Enforcement Expands
Ileana Najarro, Education Week, November 25
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library delivers 100,000 books
The Southern Illinoisan, November 16
In today’s Leading News, levy tak.
Salem Grade School Board approves tax levy, does not approve TIF #4 agreement
Austin Williams, WJBD, Salem, November 18
District 87 looks at $60.2M property tax levy; sales tax may help
D. Jack Alkire, Bloomington Pantagraph, November 20
District 208 sets public hearing for tax levy jump
Gregg Voss, Riverside Brookfield Landmark, November 18
Springfield 186 School Board weighing 4.56% tax levy increase
WAND, Decatur, November 17
Thornton Fractional District 215 hears proposed 3.5% increase in tax levy
Paul Czapkowicz, Landing Journal, November 25
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