Education
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Wauconda District 118 releases details from $22,500 settlement agreement ˗ five years laterJan 02, 2024 3:46 pm - Nearly five years after the Daily Herald requested documents detailing a $22,500 payout from Wauconda Unit School District 118 to a student’s family, the district has rel...
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Harvard president Claudine Gay resigns amid plagiarism claims, backlash from antisemitism testimony
Jan 02, 2024 1:27 pm - CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday amid plagiarism accusations and criticism over testimony at a congressional hearing where sh...
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Ingleside teen starts GoFundMe to save her Catholic grade schoolJan 02, 2024 6:00 am - Seventeen-year-old Susan Lutzke says her quest to save St. Bede School in Ingleside is about family. The senior at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein and a 2020 St....
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Huntley school board members who criticized ‘reckless spending’ as candidates vote to raise taxes
Dec 30, 2023 12:16 pm - The Huntley Community School District 158 board has voted to raise the school district’s property tax levy. The district voted for an increase of 5%, the maximum hike all...
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College of DuPage addresses growing industry demand with new cannabis certificateDec 28, 2023 8:42 pm - Responding to the dynamic needs of the regional workforce, College of DuPage recently developed a new Cannabis/Industrial Hemp Cultivation and Operations Certificate desi...
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Meet the new superintendent of Glen Ellyn District 41Dec 28, 2023 11:47 am - Glen Ellyn Elementary District 41 school board members will introduce new Superintendent Jeff McHugh with a welcome reception at Hadley Junior High School. During the boa...
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U.S. tensions with China are fraying long-cultivated academic ties. Will the chill hurt US interests?
Dec 24, 2023 7:39 am - WASHINGTON — In the 1980s, Fu Xiangdong was a young Chinese virology student who came to the United States to study biochemistry. More than three decades later, he had a ...
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16 E. coli cases now tied to Huntley High School outbreak; 2 students hospitalized
Dec 21, 2023 2:12 pm - Sixteen cases of E. coli were tied to September’s outbreak at Huntley High School, according to a McHenry County Health Department report released Thursday. That includes...
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Prospect Hts. District 23 plans referendum to fund full-day kindergarten, other improvementsDec 20, 2023 3:53 pm - With a state deadline to offer full-day kindergarten approaching, Prospect Heights Elementary School District 23 will again ask voters to approve a tax hike to pay for ad...
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Maine Township District 207 names next superintendentDec 20, 2023 10:46 am - A veteran suburban educator and administrator has been hired as Maine Township High School District 207’s next superintendent. Tatiana Bonuma, currently the deputy superi...