Latest Stories
Unit 5
- After Minnesota killings, elected officials in B-N say violent rhetoric here comes at a cost
- ‘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
- McLean County school leaders disappointed new state budget doesn’t help more with busing and other mandated costs
- 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
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
- 'We have to stay in the game': Illinois State opts in to direct payments to student-athletes
- Illinois to roll out direct admissions program for most state universities
- Fundraiser will bring memorial bench to ISU to remember slain student Carol Rofstad
- Chicago teen charged in shooting at ISU's Bone Student Center
- ISU nuclear physicist: Long-term consequences of military strike on Iran remain to be seen
- WGLT joins other NPR stations in court filing to contest public media defunding
- Students can soon earn automatic admission to state's universities, hoping to keep more in Illinois
More education stories
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Sim Sandhu, a graduate of Heartland Community College [HCC], has been selected as the recipient of the Community College Distinguished Alumni award from the Illinois Community College Trustees Association. Sandhu attended HCC from 2013 to 2014. -
Illinois State University is looking to expand housing and dining facilities to match its growing incoming classes. -
Gov. JB Pritzker named Doug Peterson, the director of AI strategy and implementation for Chicago-based pharmaceutical company AbbVie, to serve on ISU’s governing board.
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An Illinois Wesleyan University physics professor says the Trump administration's effort to choke off the supply of international students at U.S. universities is unwise. The administration is taking a hard line on visa approvals for international students, particularly those from China. -
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 head of Heartland Community College says federal proposals to reduce the amount of and eligibility for Pell Grants and other changes to higher education are "out of touch" with the world and students of today. -
Most community college students say they want to end up with a four-year degree. Few actually complete that dream. -
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.
