An attorney for fired Prairie-Hills Elementary District 144 mental health counselor Eric V. Harwell said he may file a lawsuit.
Markham’s Prairie-Hills Junior High community seeks reinstatement of fired mental health counselor
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Indiana House passes ban on transgender women participating in women’s college sports
The Indiana House passed a bill Tuesday banning transgender women from women’s sports at the collegiate level days after the NCAA amended its transgender athlete policy to align with an executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
Mayor Brandon Johnson escalates push for CPS to pick up pension payment, borrow more money
The pension obligation has been the subject of years of dispute between the city and school district over which body should be responsible for the payment.
Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money
The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s fight against “wokeness” and sowing confusion as schools scramble to comply.
Mayor Johnson names final Chicago school board member after weeks of delay
Johnson appointed Cydney Wallace, a mother of four who works for the Cook County court clerk’s office.
Waukegan schools have had 11 student expulsions this year; ‘We give them consequences depending on the entire situation’
The state’s expulsion law resulted in 11 Board of Education discussions and votes between the Aug. 27 and Feb. 11 board meetings in Waukegan, where disciplinary suggestions of Superinendent Theresa Plascencia were ratified.
Los Angeles advocate revisits his Chicago Heights roots with $100K Prairie State College scholarship
Allan DiCastro, who attended Prairie State College in the 1980s, established a $100K scholarship for Chicago Heights students.
Donald Trump calls for withholding federal money from schools and colleges that require COVID vaccines
Schools, colleges and states that require students to be immunized against COVID-19 may be at risk of losing federal money under a White House order signed Friday by President Donald Trump.
Oak Park and River Forest lauds Olympians, WWII hero, NATO leader with alumni awards
Among the OPRF alumni given Tradition of Excellence awards were an Olympic medalist, a World War II hero and a U.S. major general.
Partisan school board election bill gets initial Senate approval after amendment fails
Senator J.D. Ford, D-Indianapolis, attempted to amend a bill making school board elections partisan to only include a pay raise for board members, but that amendment failed Thursday. Senate Bill 287, authored by Sen. Gary Byrne, R-Byrneville, Sen. Chris Garten, R-Charlestown, and Sen. Blake Doriot, R-Goshen, would change the school board election process to that […]