Peter Medlin

Schools don't have enough short-term teachers to fill in the gaps. School districts in Illinois are now holding one-day online training to get short-term subs, even ones without teaching backgrounds.

Illinois will require news literacy courses at every high school. The hope is that the classes will provide the next generation with tools to maneuver the internet's misinformation minefield.

December is usually the time when families sit in crowded stuffy school gymnasiums for the annual elementary school holiday concert. But because of COVID-19, local music programs had to get creative.

Lotteries across the country are hurting with revenues down hundreds of millions of dollars. That could have big implications for states that rely on that money for a portion of education funding.

The State guidelines that were announced Tuesday for schools to resume in-person classes this fall need more work. That’s according to one of Illinois’...

In Illinois, public college and university students and their guardians will soon have a better idea of how much they’ve borrowed -- and an estimate of...

Over the past few years, Illinois lawmakers have been trying to ease the teacher shortage. But one of those plans also made it more difficult for school...

Northern Illinois University President Lisa Freeman announced the “Huskie Pledge” grant program in her State of the University speech. Illinois students...

Illinois state representatives from both sides of the aisle came to Northern Illinois University this week. They fielded student questions, debated...