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Please refer to ISBE's Weekly Message from November 2, 2021, for submission deadlines and additional information on the contest. The 40th Illinois Arts Education Week will be ...

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Jeff D'Alessio Editor Jeff D'Alessio is editor of The News-Gazette. His email is jdalessio@news-gazette.com. Tonight in Urbana, Assistant Superintendent Angi Franklin w...

By ETHAN SIMMONS esimmons@news-gazette.com CHAMPAIGN — After 10 months of quarantine, with a lot of time on his hands, Dwayne Hubbard Jr. needed something to break the mo...

DATE: For Release October 21, 2021 CHAMPAIGN/URBANA, IL -- On October 19 and 20, the Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation (CUSF) Board of Directors "Prize Patrol" delivere...

Champaign, Ill. (WCIA) Storyteller Erin Valle shares how one service dog at a Champaign alternative school is helping students feel better about their time in the classroom. ...

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Nominate a teacher by emailing Anthony Zilis at azilis@news-gazette.com When Tara Santiago was in middle and high school in Puerto Rico, she loved studying Spanish literatu...

TALKING TIKTOK CHALLENGES Another week, another wave of social media ‘challenges’ tempting students on TikTok and putting school administrators on high alert from coast to coa...

Please visit ISBE's weekly Message dated September 28, 2021, to register for this event. The link is found under Student Opportunities in the right-hand sidebar. The Illinois S...

Email nominations to Anthony Zilis at azilis@news-gazette.com During a career that began in 2007, Susan Kim has taught preschool, middle school math and at the University o...

Twenty-one high schoolers from across the state will serve as student advisers to ISBE SPRINGFIELD – Twenty-one high school students have been chosen to serve on the ...

By ETHAN SIMMONS esimmons@news-gazette.com SAVOY — Minutes after watching 20-year professional Justin McMullen solder, braise and clamp a pipe joint with a ProPress, 14 loca...

The News-Gazette is staffing each Illinois football home game in 2021 with a Junior Reporter. Eryn Taylor , a sixth-grader at Franklin STEAM Academy in Champaign, worked Sat...

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Jim Rossow On Saturday in Champaign, swimmers and divers from four area high schools took to the pool for what has become an annual service project. This year’s goal: Raise $...

We had the pool to ourselves. That can happen when you take your kids to the pool in late August. By that point, most parents have been burned out from nearly three months of d...

Jim Rossow We ask our reporters who cover Illini athletics to remain unbiased in their approach. But we’ll cut Renee Anderson some slack. “She wants the Illini to win — th...

COLIN LIKAS clikas@news-gazette.com ST. JOSEPH — Longtime St. Joseph-Ogden football coach Dick Duval died Thursday morning following an extended battle with pancreatic cancer....