Peoria Public Schools

Students at the Valeska Hinton Early Childhood Education Center on Peoria’s South Side soon will have an opportunity to grow through outdoor activities as the school develops its new nature-based play and learning space.

The Peoria Park District and Peoria Public Schools are weighing options about what to do with the decades-old Central Park Pool.

A divided Peoria Public Schools Board of Education voted Monday to move forward with a Texas-based search firm to find a replacement for outgoing Superintendent Sharon Kherat.

The Peoria Public Schools Board of Education will wait at least two weeks before hiring a search firm to lead the way in selecting a replacement for outgoing Superintendent Sharon Kherat.

Boosting graduation rates, reducing chronic absenteeism, filling an overabundance of teacher vacancies. Those are among the accomplishments Sharon Kherat lists when asked what makes her proudest of her tenure as Peoria Public Schools superintendent.

Peoria Public Schools’ superintendent is stepping down after the upcoming school year.

A proposal for Peoria Public Schools to purchase a new walk-through metal detector system for the district’s three traditional high schools failed to gain board of education approval on Tuesday.

Peoria Public Schools will implement a clear bookbag policy for its high school and middle school students later this year.

Seven juveniles were arrested by the Peoria Police Department after a fight broke out Saturday during a Peoria Public Schools graduation ceremony at the Civic Center.

Peoria Public Schools District 150 is supporting students’ mental health with long-term care from an outside service.