Students at Conley Elementary School in Algonquin may have noticed their classrooms are a little busier nowadays, with more teachers in the room to help them catch up on work they might have missed in recent years because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A...

Fox Valley students demonstrated resilience after two years of learning disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with schools showing signs of improvement and movement back toward pre-pandemic performance levels, according to the 2022 Illinois Schoo...

As students returned fully to in-person learning during the 2021-22 school year, districts across the state worked to figure out how to make up for lost time and close the COVID learning gap. That left many schools scaling up summer academic progra...

After leading Community Unit District 300 through a global pandemic, Superintendent Susan Harkin is stepping down. Harkin's retirement at the end of the 2023-24 school year was announced during Tuesday's school board meeting. She was named superint...

Both parishioners and members of the community can view and learn more about the offerings at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic School at an open house on Thursday, Oct. 27. Principal Tricia Weis will welcome guests in the parish's Ministry Center Holy...

From plank roads to toll roads, and one-room school houses to flourishing universities, the suburbs and the Daily Herald have grown up since the newspaper's founding in 1872. Along the way, the region has made history with discoveries such as the to...

Starts before Friday Goebbert's Fall Festival: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily through Monday, Oct. 31, at Goebbert's Pumpkin Patch and Apple Orchard, 42W813 Reinking Road, Pingree Grove, and 40 W. Higgins Road, South Barrington. Animals, mazes, wagon r...

Aurora officials celebrated a milestone in the renovation of old Copley Hospital on Tuesday with a ribbon-cutting at Weston Bridges — apartments for people with intellectual, cognitive and developmental concerns who want to live on their own. “This ...

Daily Goebbert's Fall Festival: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Monday, Oct. 31, at 42W813 Reinking Road, Pingree Grove. Animals, mazes, wagon rides, pig races and more. See website for activity hours. Tickets are $17 on weekdays, $20 on weekends and ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - When Minneapolis teachers settled a 14-day strike in March, they celebrated a groundbreaking provision in their new contract that was meant to shield teachers of color from seniority-based layoffs and help ensure that students fro...