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Unit 5
- ‘You gotta smile’: Normal Community celebrates baseball team’s best season in history
- Video: District 87 and Unit 5 offer free meals for children and teens during summer
- Retiring educators in McLean County share lessons learned over their careers
- Unit 5 teachers make voices heard on cell phones in the classroom
- Carl's Pro Band closure leaves behind a legacy of great service and sound
- Unit 5 approves borrowing for needed facilities repairs
- Unit 5 board hears results of survey on cell phone use in classrooms
District 87
- Video: District 87 and Unit 5 offer free meals for children and teens during summer
- BHS seniors raise money for bus stop bench, making life 'marginally better' and leaving a legacy
- Retiring educators in McLean County share lessons learned over their careers
- Listen: What Bloomington High School students are excited about this summer
- Carl's Pro Band closure leaves behind a legacy of great service and sound
- Bloomington Career Academy students tour — and help build — their future space under renovation
- D87 optimistic, but acknowledges challenges of banning cell phones at BHS
Higher Education
- ISU graduate receives democracy prize to fund civic engagement project
- Analysis: Black drivers more likely to be stopped by campus police in Illinois, including at ISU
- Heartland Community College president is critical of proposed federal education aid cuts
- Smoothing transfers to other colleges is a complex task for community colleges
- Carol Willis' passion and generosity help create 'elite level' for Illinois Wesleyan softball
- Illinois program to increase faculty diversity in higher education is in doubt
- Attorneys general ask educators for courage on DEI policies
More education stories
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The McLean County treasurer’s office plans to mail updated tax bills next week to property owners in two school districts where tax rates were incorrectly calculated. -
Students at the Regional Alternative School in Bloomington are getting their hands dirty as they learn the importance of gardening and agriculture by growing their very own food. -
The Olympia School District wants McLean County to correct an error that could cost the district $1.5 million in tax revenue this year. -
The City of Bloomington and Town of Normal have launched a website that wants to make it easier to help the unhoused in the Twin Cities. The campaign has two goals in mind. -
The Lexington school district honored graduating seniors, unveiled its new STEAM addition, and dedicated a time capsule that'll be opened 25 years from now. -
The Heartland Community College baseball team is returning to the World Series for a fourth straight season, on a quest for the program’s second national championship during that span. -
John Miles brings nearly 20 years of experience at small, liberal arts institutions. He joins Illinois Wesleyan University in July. -
One of the responses Illinois Wesleyan University has made to a complaint of alleged antisemitism filed with the U.S. Education Department is to codify rules that satisfy both First Amendment protections of free speech and the priority to make sure discourse is civil. -
A group of non-union workers at Illinois State University threatened to unionize during Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting. Organizers say over 200 ISU employees have signed a petition asking for raises, in the wake of other collective bargaining on campus. -
After his first school year on the job, new Illinois Wesleyan University President Sheahon Zenger paints a portrait of an institution "re-claiming its birthright" as a liberal arts education center in Central Illinois.
