Illinois Education

The president of the Illinois Education Association said it believes the governor’s vaccine mandate was legal and necessary to provide the best educational environment for students.

As schools continue to rely on remote learning, families who don't have access to reliable internet struggle to keep up.

The minimum salary a teacher can be paid in Illinois will soon increase. Governor J.B. Pritzker joined educators and activists to sign a wage increase...

Southern Illinois University will begin its search for a permanent president soon, and at the same time leaders say they're working to find an interim...

Like many states, Illinois is facing a teacher shortage.The Illinois State Board of Education estimates more than 2,000 positions remained vacant during…

Third-grader students who live in low-income homes underperformed their more well-off classmates by 50 percentage points in seven Illinois school…

Sister Thea Bowman Catholic School in East St. Louis is one of hundreds of private schools in Illinois that could see a financial boost from the state’s…

Even though the Illinois House overrode Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s budget veto Thursday — leading to a budget for the first time in more than two…

Updated Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015School is canceled Thursday for 6,000 students in East St. Louis as teachers walk the picket line. About 400 union teachers…

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, Oct. 10, 2013 - Many taxpayers have focused in recent weeks on the copper-plated doors newly…