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Illinois State Board of Education released a report Friday detailing where counties fall in meeting state requirements for youth mental health screening in schools. McLean County seems to be doing well.
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A controversy that ignited with a book entitled This Book is Gay available in an eighth grade classroom in Heyworth has led to a teacher's resignation. The book is a sexual education text focused on LGBTQ+ experiences. Some parents were strongly opposed to the book due to explicit material seen as inappropriate.
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A Heyworth educator who colleagues call a student favorite, and a real innovator, could be Illinois’ next Teacher of the Year.
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Often called Introduction to Education or Education 101, the courses are aimed at giving juniors or seniors a chance to see if they want to pursue a career in education — and they’ve also been touted as a means of reducing the teacher shortage, as well as diversifying a heavily white profession.
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Substitute teaching, but make it full time. That's the idea that at least two area school districts are testing as a solution to an ongoing shortage of teachers and the substitutes who cover their absences.
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The superintendent of Heyworth Schools said Tuesday the district will move ahead with plans to bring back junior and senior high school students to in person classes on Thursday.
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Heyworth Community Unit School District 4 has pivoted to remote learning because of a coronavirus outbreak. Superintendent Lisa Taylor informed parents of the 934 students in the district on Monday that students will learn online for the rest of the week.
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Several McLean County school districts planned to make masks optional this year, before Gov. JB Pritzker made them mandatory on Wednesday.
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A group of Bloomington-Normal pediatricians is calling for universal masking when schools open in August.
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District 87 and Unit 5 started the school year online because of increased COVID-19 spread in the Twin City community and region.But most schools in…