Messina Lambert

Illinois is not part of the growing movement from state legislators to have a larger say in how students are using phones in schools, leaving educators to make their own rules and regulations surrounding phone usage. In Bloomington-Normal, those policies vary widely.

Messina Lambert has been named the next Bloomington Junior High School principal, pending school board approval later this month.

Remote learning presents unique challenges for students from low-income families, though the principal at one such school in west Bloomington says so far…

On paper, Marcus Brown is a fifth-grader at Irving Elementary School in west Bloomington. But he has another title that’s way cooler: Leader of the Black…

The state’s latest batch of data shows fewer underperforming schools in Unit 5 and District 87, even as many are asked to serve more high-need students…