The study Tuesday by the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools shows 90% of schools have at least a serious shortage, struggle to find substitutes and face fewer than five candidates for open positions.
The Contest is a podcast submission contest where 4th – 12th grade teachers can submit an audio file created by their student(s) for an opportunity to have the Grand Prize-winning podcasts discussed in a news segment that will appear on an episode of NPR’s All Things Considered or Morning Edition.
IPM’s Reginald Hardwick talked with Mendenhall about her family, her gift and she shared one of her poems.
State’s largest teachers union releases annual education report.
The University of Illinois is not renewing their contract with the school’s first associate vice chancellor for Native affairs. Associate Vice Chancellor Jacki Rand said it’s part of a larger problem Native faculty and students face.
Four people were aboard the school bus — three children and the driver. The driver of the truck was also killed. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign journalism students are traveling to West Africa to produce documentaries about how people educate and reduce stigmas surrounding menstrual cycles.
CHAMPAIGN – On October 11th – just days after the Hamas attacks on Israel – a seventh-grade English teacher at Franklin Middle School chose to show his students a short video of the attack. During this lesson, he specifically pointed out one of his students because she was Palestinian. The young girl has light pale skin,…
Over half of Illinois teachers say they are ready to fulfill new state history requirements, according to a University of Illinois survey.
Despite efforts to simplify the Federal Application for Free Student Aid (FAFSA), students with undocumented parents are dealing with a frustrating website glitch that’s threatening their access to financial aid. A new online form launched at the end of last year — the result of the FAFSA Simplification Act that Congress passed in December 2020. The change was meant…
Senate Bill 2243 required the Illinois State Board of Education to create a literacy plan. The law emphasizes the plan should help school districts adopt evidence-based teaching strategies, including phonics.
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Police Department says they acted immediately on the information they had at the time, some of which they learned after his death was inaccurate.
The Environmental Protection Agency is beginning to send nearly 5,000 electric buses to school districts around the country after a nearly two-year ramp-up. A few Midwestern districts weigh in on how the new buses are working so far. https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s60/audio/2024/01/electricbuses-featureweb.mp3 The yellow buses lined up after school in the Ralls County School District look nearly identical….
One in 10 college students are food insecure, according to a 2020 University of Illinois study of U.S. Census data. Some Illinois lawmakers want to change this.
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY Champaign County Regional Planning Commission – Opens at 10:00 a.m. Champaign Unit 4 Schools – Closed Parkland College – Closed Rantoul City Schools (PK-8) – Closed University Laboratory High School in Urbana – E-Learning Day University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Instructors are recommended to move in-person classes to a remote-learning format until noon Tuesday…