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Unit 5
- Local Democracy Playbook: 7 tips to get stuff done in Bloomington-Normal
- Normal West mock trial team heads to national competition in Iowa
- Illinois bomb squad called to NCHS responding to general threat to the school
- Family reunification underway after threat at Normal Community High School
- Normal West principal receives $10,000 leadership award
- Investigators say Chiddix Junior High Teacher whispered lewd things in a young girl's ear
- Chiddix Junior High teacher faces grooming charges
District 87
- Bloomington Junior High students lead project focused on positivity
- Justice Department investigates District 87, Ridgeview and 34 other Illinois school districts over 'gender ideology'
- School psychologists 'drowning' as school sales tax hasn't yet filled a District 87 mental health gap
- District 87 superintendent sounds off on State Farm departure, phones and SNAP benefits
- District 87's David Mouser named a Superintendent of Distinction
- Unit 5 adopts new reading curriculum that has classrooms hooked on phonics
- Readers' theater teaches Stevenson Elementary students about Black history
Higher Education
- New projection show to highlight Bloomington's Route 66 centennial celebration in June
- Tension from ISU's AFSCME strike lingers, even after new contract ratified
- ISU trustees approve $84 million for new science complex facilities
- AFSCME workers at ISU overwhelmingly approve new contract
- ISU and AFSCME reach tentative deal on new contract to end strike
- Bloomington-Normal joins in nationwide May Day protests
- After governor's remarks, ISU tells mediator it's willing to return to bargaining table with striking AFSCME
More education stories
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Community and afterschool programs are requesting more money as they still trying to get federal funding cuts back, and Gov. JB Pritzker proposed a funding cut in next years budget. -
State Lawmakers will assess how much progress has occurred in public education under the Evidence-Based Funding formula. -
Molly Allen, who served about six years as assistant regional superintendent, is now regional superintendent. She takes over for Mark Jontry, who retired in April. -
The union representing building, grounds and dining workers at Illinois State attempted to gain a temporary restraining order preventing the university from contracting janitorial services during a work stoppage. A judge denied the request. -
Gov. JB Pritzker said he wants Illinois State University and the AFSCME union to come back to the negotiating table as the strike enters its fourth week. "It seems like there is a deal to be made," he said. -
Dining and grounds workers say the financial squeeze of going weeks without pay is making it tough for them to get by. Union members have been on strike since April 8. -
Glen Nelson, vice president of finance and planning at Illinois State University, said the union and ISU continue to have three sticking points concerning back pay and future salary raises. ISU has said it has already offered the union its best and final deal. -
Ben Hage will take his new position effective June 1. The Petrick Idea Center will open this fall semester at Illinois Wesleyan University. -
Illinois State University officials on Friday acknowledged using external companies to perform custodial and grounds work on campus during the AFSCME strike, a claim that the union contends in a lawsuit is a violation of state law. ISU officials maintain they are in compliance with hiring and procurement laws. -
On day 17 of the AFSCME Local 1110 strike, union representatives presented the president of Illinois State University with nearly 7,000 petition signatures urging his negotiation of a fair deal. A state senator on campus said the strike is "putting pressure on us as legislators as well."
