Education & Schools

Sheila Quirk-Bailey has seen plenty of change in the five years she’s served as president of Illinois Central College — and that’s fine with her.

The head of the Illinois Department of Public Health told Knox College graduates to write their own stories – and make those stories Pulitzer Prize...

Peoria's Heart of Illinois Big Brothers, Big Sisters chapter hopes a month-long campaign to recruit mentors will trim its waiting list.

A bill to allow special education students who turn 22 to continue with their classwork until the end of the school year has passed unanimously through the State Senate.

Illinois Central College is leading a coalition of dozens of community groups in applying for a federal Promise Neighborhoods grant. If approved, nearly $80 million would be available to transform education on Peoria's South Side through the new "Peoria Cradle to Career" initiative.

COVID-19 laid bare technology access inequities among students. After months of virtual learning, many Peoria-area schools plan to use the summer to make up for lost ground.

Barring a surge in bus driver applicants between now and August, it appears Peoria Public Schools may be stuck with the shortened three-tier bell schedule for another year.

Before Macomb High School seniors received their diplomas this month, they received a gift connected to the renowned civil rights leader the Reverend C...

The Peoria Riverfront Museum has installed what officials say is one of the world’s most advanced planetarium projector systems.

UnityPoint Health and District 150 are offering more COVID vaccinations to students as the Pfizer vaccine becomes available to kids 12 and up. But many students are still hesitant about getting the vaccine.