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The potential for the federal government to follow through on threats to diversity, equity and inclusion programs as well as their funding is a topic all seven candidates for the Lake Zurich Unit District 95 school board feel passionate about.

As fears and questions swirl about immigration enforcement, suburban schools are letting students and their families know what their rights are at home and school.

Linda Keyes of Lake in Hills won big during an appearance on “Wheel of Fortune” that aired Tuesday.

Daily Herald opinion: Suburban students get academic credit and pay for 60-hour internships to explore career interests before graduation. The program aims to better align education with business workforce needs.

Alignment Collaborative for Education helps high school students get paid internships to expose them to careers and help determine their plans after graduation. The program helped nearly 150 students in several school districts in 2024 and will add another 50 internships and another school district next year.

A quick-thinking teacher was honored recently for saving the life of a choking student in Algonquin by performing the Heimlich maneuver.

Four years ago, Leo Bonilla, a student at Neubert Elementary School in Algonquin, saw a TV news report of people waiting in long lines for food during the COVID-19 pandemic. He took his change jar of $22 and raised $100 for his school food pantry. Now in his fifth year of fundraising, Leo has collected thousands of dollars and pounds of food for the District 300 Food Pantry.