There were fewer than 500 Black students at Lanphier High School in the 2024-2025 school year, but they received almost four times that number of in-school and out-of-school suspensions.
On Monday, the Unit 4 school board approved three more members of Geovanny Ponce’s new cabinet.
Rantoul Township High School Superintendent Scott Amerio said he is pleased with the increase to the evidence-based funding formula. But he would like to see additional funding for transportation services.
Reynaldo Camas-Aranda grew up in a house with his uncle, aunt and mother in Cicero. His uncle’s arrest during Operation Midway Blitz has strained the family’s finances.
This week could be the last Friday on the Farm, because the grants supporting Urbana District 116’s Farm to School program run out at the end of June.
New national data by Stanford researchers presents Urbana as one of the lowest-performing school districts in Illinois.
International students from certain countries can work more hours and take fewer courses than is usually legal under Special Student Relief (SSR).
U of I restored access to the Canvas platform after verifying there were no security risks to bringing the platform back online after a ransomware attack.
Around one hundred people rallied for immigrant rights outside the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign administrative building on May Day.
The Springfield FBI office says it is launching a major sweep this morning in Danville and it is not immigration-related.
Photographer Dwayne Banks Jr. highlighted 30 local African American leaders in his exhibit at the University YMCA in Champaign.
Federal agents are planning to be in Champaign-Urbana this week — but not for immigration enforcement.
The University of Illinois retired Chief Illiniwek in 2007, without picking a new mascot. Native American faculty say the inaction is damaging.
Dozens of U of I students and workers gathered on campus Wednesday to demand the school cut ties with companies profiting from immigration enforcement.
Before he became a point guard for the Illini, senior Kylan Boswell went to Edison Middle School in Champaign.