On a new Teachers' Lounge Radio Show, you can hear a school year in the life of our student correspondents. Follow the ...

On a new Teachers' Lounge, we interviewed a group of Rockford elementary school students every month of the school year this ...

Berg: Educators teach skills that every student in the room is ready for. There’s no guessing and no watering down ...

Rockford elementary students graduate while be showered with applause. Posted ... Students and staff at Spring Creek Elementary showered 5th graders with applause on their final day in grade school.

Rockford Police say they received a Shot Spotter alert just after 1 a.m. Saturday in the 700 block of 7th Ave., just across Kishwaukee St. from Constance Lane Elementary School.

This mobile summer library, funded by the Rockford Education Foundation, keeps summer learners excited about reading.

Thirteen years ago, I wrote the story of Aurora’s Warren Smith, who was a retired Catholic school principal and also the retired Aurora Area Superintendent of Catholic Schools. The editor ...

Metairie’s Bonnabel Boat Launch bustled Thursday as a 20-foot crane hoisted brightly colored speedboats into the waters of ...

The Fourth of July holiday is fast approaching and fireworks displays will soon light up Chicago-area skies, but which day ...

Jerry Holt was named Rockford's Bus Driver of the Year for 2024-2025 at Rockford Elementary School. "Mr. Jerry has served in the bus driver field for a number of years, is committed and dedicated ...

Rockford — With the costumes he sports, the high-fives he hands out, and the infectious, booming laugh that rings through the ...

In the Springfield metro area, about 9,600 Black people and 13,390 white people were living in poverty in 2023, according to the five-year ACS data. In the city of Springfield, about 9,000 Blacks ...