Education and Family

Heartland Community College and Millikin University announced a new transfer partnership that will make the transition between schools easier for Heartland graduates.

The Boys and Girls Club of Bloomington-Normal has cut "55% of its team" as part of the response to a loss of grant funding.

Illinois Wesleyan University's future Petrick Idea Center had a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday where several guest speakers discussed what the center will provide for the campus and local community.

A building on Oakland Avenue in Bloomington has been renamed to honor Willie G. and Gloria Brown for their contributions to the local community.

If she wins, Bloomington Junior High School teacher Haleigh Couch plans to invest in her students and classroom — after the Hawaii vacation.

A volunteer-driven organization that tries to remove barriers to child learning in McLean County is taking a big step, hiring its first full-time, salaried executive director.

Central Illinois educators and administrators are getting creative as already limited funding for rent and utility assistance dwindles and student need for housing support services soars.

University High School senior London Wollenweber of Bloomington is a political junkie. London's political hero is the late President Jimmy Carter. And he and his mother just drove down to Plains, Georgia, to pay their respects to the late president.

Six Unit 5 schools have earned the highest rating on the Illinois State Report Card this year — the largest number of "exemplary" schools for the district since the current system began in 2017.

Every so often on WGLT, we feature community servants and unsung heroes working to make Bloomington-Normal a better place to live. It's a series we call More of That, Please! In this edition, we focus on a man from rural Normal who has been lighting up children’s lives for close to six decades.