Education

Extreme cold forces Joliet schools to go to e-learning Tuesday as wind chills expected to reach 25 to 30 below zero

St. Michael the Archangel Catholic School in Streator announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2024-2025 school year.

Illinois Valley Community College campuses in Oglesby and Ottawa will be closed on Monday, Jan. 20, in observance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Dixon resident Elle Jarrett recently was named to the University of Evansville’s dean’s list for the fall 2024 semester.

The Rotary Club of Ottawa Sunrise selected the Seniors of the Month for January.

After some residents’ complaints of safety concerns, changes are coming to parking restrictions in Yorkville along Bailey Road.

The college named 554 students to the dean’s list.

Illinois Valley Community College’s food pantry fed a growing need in 2024, serving more students – and more children in their households – than ever.

Nettle Creek School at 8820 Scott School Rd., Morris, is hosting a night honoring its basketball-playing alumni at around 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 22.

It’s not happening tomorrow – it will take time – but the Catholic schools of Oglesby, La Salle and Peru will be unified.

La Salle County Sheriff Adam Diss will award one scholarship in the amount of $500.

St. Charles School District 303 parents hoping to enroll their student in the Community Preschool Program will need to register for the online lottery by Feb. 7.

The dean’s list honors students with a semester grade-point average of 3.75 or higher. The students also must complete at least 12 credit hours.

Here is the honor roll for Morris Community High School's first semester of the 2024-2025 school year.

While Coal City Intermediate School students spend this year, the next year and potentially further years learning at Coal City Elementary School instead, the district is left with options for getting them their own school once again.

Putnam County Junior High School announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2024-2025 school year.

Nine retired professionals were awarded with the honorary title of emeritus during the Illinois Valley Community College Board of Trustees meeting in December.

The Dixon School Board has approved a resolution to issue $4.5 million in working cash fund bonds at a 4.8% interest rate in a short-term borrowing plan to finance curriculum, technology and social-emotional services through 2045.

City officials in Yorkville are investing near half-a-million dollars under your feet, replacing and upgrading the city’s sanitary sewer system.

Police activity Friday morning at Jacobs High School in Algonquin was the result of a “false lockdown.”

The following students were selected by the Seneca High School teachers and staff as the November 2024 Students of the Month.

The opportunity was made possible when Mrs. Austiff and Mrs. Lara applied for a scholarship to rent the VR headsets from the Illinois Holocaust Museum

Hall High School freshman Jadyn Leone was selected to perform as the Illinois Music Education Association District 2 representative for the Illinois Music Education Conference All-State Music Festival in Peoria.

The Biden-Harris Administration has announced a group discharge for 261,000 borrowers with loans from Ashford University. Largely an online institution, Ashford had a campus in Clinton, Iowa, that was formerly the home of Mount St. Clare College.

January is National Radon Action Month and IEMA-OHS Director Alicia Tate-Nadeau warns that each year more than 1,100 people in Illinois are estimated to develop radon-related lung cancer.

The Lake County Regional Office of Education has been awarded a $9.9 million grant under the highly competitive Education Innovation and Research Program.

Dixon resident Mason Weigle recently was named to Wisconsin Lutheran College’s dean’s list for the fall 2024 semester.

The Illinois State Board of Education voted Wednesday to approve a budget request for the upcoming fiscal year of nearly $11.4 billion, a 4.6% increase over this year’s budget

Here are the honor roll students for Mazon-Verona-Kinsman Middle School.

The La Salle-Peru High School Renaissance Students of the Month were recognized Wednesday during a breakfast ceremony.

Seneca High School announced its honor roll for the first semester of the 2024-2025 school year.

Kankakee School District 111’s assistant superintendent of human resources Shemeka Fountain was fired Monday with a split 4-3 vote by the Kankakee School Board

Here is Minooka Community High School's honor roll for the first semester of the 2024-25 school year.

Parents Defending Education filed the complaint on Jan. 13 in regards to a group started at Grande Park Elementary School called The Black Student Alliance Buddies

Waltham Elementary has 10 more weeks to persuade Utica-area voters to fund a $10 million annex. A new board president will lead the charge.

The La Salle-Peru High School board and administration is hosting a coffee talk about the recent progress made in replanting its agriculture program. The meeting will be at Utica Village Hall.

Leland Elementary School teacher Whitney Hart was named a finalist for Q Hit Music’s December Teacher of the Year.

La Moille Junior/Senior High School announced its honor roll for the first semester of the 2024-2025 school year. A * indicates a minimum 4.0 grade point average.

This month’s speaker will be Janel Stahr, who is running for office in the upcoming school board elections.

Lucas Nelson has recorded 100 wins in this high school career and is closing in on the school record for pins.

Peru Catholic School announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2024-25 school year.

Trinity Catholic Academy in La Salle released its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2024-25 school year.

Rutland Grade School in rural Ottawa announced its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2024-2025 school year.

The Streator Elementary Board of Education president said Tuesday the board was not surprised by the teachers' union’s strike authorization vote.

Here is the honor roll for Morris Grade School.

Lillian Reaver plans on going to college for biomedical engineering.

Princeton High School announced its honor roll for the first quarter of the 2024-2025 school year.

Jefferson Elementary School in Ottawa announced December’s Champions of the Charter.

Woodland High School in rural Streator released its honor roll for the first semester of the 2024-2025 school year.

Princeton Christian Academy has released its honor roll for the second quarter of the 2024-25 school year.