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Unit 5
- Chiddix teacher agrees to delay detention hearing as he awaits trial on felony grooming, solicitation charges
- Chiddix Junior High teacher faces 42 felony counts in the school’s 2nd grooming case
- Prosecutors say 'additional individuals have come forward' in grooming case against Unit 5 teacher
- Unit 5 parent sues over alleged harassment of a trans student at Chiddix Junior High
- New parent notification system coming to Unit 5
- Inside the skills-focused young adult program at Eugene Field
- Local Democracy Playbook: 7 tips to get stuff done in Bloomington-Normal
District 87
- Why mattress trash is this Bloomington nonprofit's treasure
- High schoolers could soon be able to swap 2 years of foreign language with technical education
- Bloomington Career Academy sees growth in new space
- McLean County governments, school districts play the market as gas prices remain high
- New eligibility requirements reshape District 87's summer school program
- Pure joy: Teachers tour future home for District 87's Sarah Raymond School
- Bloomington Junior High students lead project focused on positivity
Higher Education
- WGLT and Dirksen Congressional Center to host Adam Kinzinger at Illinois State University on Oct. 1
- Heisman Trophy winner and entrepreneur Tim Tebow to headline Red Cross annual Evening of Stars
- ISU alum Laurie Metcalf wins a Tony Award for ‘Death of a Salesman’ performance
- Heartland Community College plans for same or less money despite slight statewide funding increase in higher ed
- ISU looks to 'weather the storm' as state funding bump lags behind inflation
- Suspect in ISU shooting convicted on gun charges, acquitted of attempted murder
- History Maker Melinda Fischer points to teamwork in her winning career in softball
More education stories
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A new athletics space, three agriculture classrooms and a new home for the unit office are included in the project.
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The book, Pilot’s Drive for Autonomy: The Neurodynamic Navigator System, provides a guide to children diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance [PDA], a subtype of autism.
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Gov. JB Pritzker says he intends to sign legislation imposing a statewide ban on cell phones and other wireless communication devices during instructional time in public schools and charter schools.
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Illinois Wesleyan University is leaning into technology improvement and expansion as it moves toward the 2026-27 school year.
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As part of NPR's Climate Solutions Week, you'll learn about efforts to make sustainability and recycling easier for college students in Illinois. Because one student’s trash is another’s treasure come the next semester.
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A bill introduced in the Illinois legislature would allow teachers to challenge notices of remedy, actions that go against school policy but can be fixed. Opponents have raised concern that this could erase documentation of patterns of abuse by teachers.
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The long-dreaded enrollment cliff for colleges and universities is here. “I think there's still a path to success for us, but we'll have to be nimble,” said ISU admissions chief Jeff Mavros.
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Illinois Wesleyan University on Thursday announced a new interdisciplinary program focused on quantum science that it says will be the first of its kind in the U.S.
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There will be sidewalk improvements and upgrades to traffic control devices and pedestrian crossings around Tri-Valley Elementary, Middle and High School.
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The City of Bloomington will explore development possibilities for land on the northeast edge of Downtown, after acquiring the former Electrolux and Mennonite Hospital property through a land exchange with Illinois Wesleyan University.