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Unit 5
- Unit 5 reminds families of food and financial resources amid ongoing government shutdown
- Unit 5 discusses process, criteria and feedback for enrollment planning study
- Unit 5 to host public meeting focused on enrollment planning study underway
- Students, community members largely defend teacher at Unit 5 meeting over 'Abolish ICE' shirt
- Unit 5 superintendent gives update on enrollment, transportation needs and cell phones
- Unit 5 board approves annual budget, learns of Weikle's retirement plans
- Unit 5 and District 87 start school year with new high school phone policies
District 87
- 'Opens up the world': Stevenson Elementary's new playground focuses on access
- New report cards show fewer 'exemplary' B-N schools and more with struggling student groups
- District 87 looks to borrow $20M in bonds for early childhood center renovations, other improvements
- District 87 superintendent provides updates on facilities work, teachers and students
- Bent Elementary School welcomes new playground and greenspace
- District 87 considers easing graduation requirements for students new to the country
- Unit 5 and District 87 start school year with new high school phone policies
Higher Education
- A dystopian game show at the Normal Theater imagines immigrants competing for citizenship
- Experts consider benefits and risks as Illinois restricts use of AI in therapy practices
- Illinois Wesleyan University adding men's bowling in 2026
- B-N native Denny Matthews, 'Voice of the Royals,' to say 'I do' for the first time at 83
- Futurist pushes students and educators to learn how to use AI, not just ‘play' with it
- ISU's Ryan Pedon wants to play more Power 4 schools but major programs aren't interested
- ISU teaching assistant on leave faces federal charges over alleged threats to President Trump
More education stories
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The new leader of the Illinois Federation of Teachers says state lawmakers should consider raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations that have received federal tax breaks under the Trump administration to increase state spending on education and other public services. -
A pair of town hall meetings this week with campus stakeholders unveiled more details about ISU's new budget framework that itemizes revenue by enrollment. -
Illinois State leaders are urging the campus to commit to change and remain flexible as the university implements a new budgeting process that could significantly re-allocate program funds. -
Gov. JB Pritzker says he's not ready to release $25 million in approved funds for higher education. That would include $1.6 million for Illinois State University. -
The Better Business Bureau of Central Illinois wants to empower seniors, and others, with knowledge that can help protect them against scams. -
As the Trump administration sends National Guard soldiers to Chicago, a half dozen Illinois State University students have been called to active duty this week. -
Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin told a crowd of about 1,200 people at Illinois Wesleyan University on Monday night that Bloomington-Normal favorite son Adlai Stevenson II was her commencement speaker the year she graduated college. -
Eight years after putting in place a tool that gauges kindergarten readiness, more children in Illinois are showing up to elementary school ready to go, but gaps between different groups of students remain and are pronounced, according to a new report on public education in the state. -
The top academic officer and CFO at Illinois State University are asking the campus to have patience in the face of the federal government shutdown. -
At a joint news conference Friday, Carlock resident Desi Anderson was joined by state and national lawmakers to announce proposed legislation clamping down on student directory data that is not protected by current privacy laws.
