Sharon Kherat

The Peoria District 150 Board of Education approved Jerry Bell as the new school superintendent effective July 1. The other finalist for the post, Renee Andrews, will assume the newly-created position of deputy superintendent.

All Peoria Public Schools will be closed Friday, in response to the extreme cold forecast for the region. The Bradley University campus will also be closed, with classes shifted to remote learning.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony Thursday morning held in conjunction with the Peoria Public Schools Foundation’s annual breakfast fundraiser marked the final step ahead of the $12.3 million dome’s opening.

Renee Andrews and Jerry Bell, the final two candidates in the running to be the new Peoria Public Schools superintendent, answered questions from the public this week in separate town halls.

The Peoria Public Schools superintendent search is down to two candidates. The first of two town halls with the candidates was held Tuesday.

The public is invited to town hall meetings next week to meet the two finalists to become the next superintendent of Peoria Public Schools.

Peoria Public Schools administrators see District 150 making “meaningful academic progress” across several key areas — and at almost every school — on this year’s Illinois Report Card.

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.