Education

Glenbard High School District 87 Superintendent David Larson reflects on 13 years leading the school district. Larson will step away from the position on July 1.

The 42nd Annual St. Bede auction on Saturday, June 14 raised an estimated $390,000. Every dollar raised helps keep tuition more affordable for families, ensuring more students can benefit from its mission.

The Illinois Valley Community College Board of Trustees approved a $45,000 bid to launch its electric fleet during Tuesday’s meeting.

Safe Journeys, a domestic violence and sexual assault survivor support agency, is offering the workshop, Grooming and Sexual Violence: It is Your Business, at Illinois Valley Community College on Thursday, June 26.

The Nature Foundation of Will County's latest donation will go toward education programming and public engagement at the Will County forest preserves.

Four members of the SD 308 Board of Education led the district’s group of walkers,

Since the phrase “bursting at the seams” was first used by Yorkville School District 115 officials to describe their classroom capacity crisis, big changes have been anticipated. Four possible facility upgrades are being considered, two raise taxes. A referendum is likely.

Organizers hope to gather enough school supplies Saturday, June 21, to assist 1,500 students in Ogle, Lee and Whiteside counties.

Dixon, Rock Falls and Sterling students were named to the list.

Sauk Valley Community College’s Impact program has received a $25,000 gift from Dixon Rotary, which will help provide Dixon High School students with access to the Impact program.

A century-old grade school that taught generations of families in Sycamore will open to the public for a final time Saturday. Sycamore District 427 will host a farewell celebration for Central School, 245 W. Exchange St., before its administrative offices move to Bethany Road.

Natalie Pratt, who graduated from Amboy High School this year, has family ties to FFA that reach back to her childhood. Her mother, aunt and uncle all served as state officers, and Pratt often traveled with her mother to FFA conventions and workshops.

Lockport Township High School District 205's Board of Education honored its four graduating student board members.

The Downers Grove Grade School District 58 Board of Education recently appointed three candidates to fill administrative positions.

Dani Holland of Walls 102/Shaw Local Radio talks about the official winner of this year’s Teacher Of The Year Award. This year’s winner is Carrol Happ, a third grade teacher from Northview School in Peru

For the spring 2025 semester, the following students were named to the Academic Honors list at Illinois Valley Community College.

The Morris Community High School board approved an agreement with Bulley & Andrews Construction to handle the $67 million addition voters approved in the March election.

A longtime IVCC trustee and a college-business partnership that addressed a growing healthcare shortage were recognized Friday, June 6, by the Illinois Community College Trustees Association (ICCTA), an advisory organization supporting trustees of the 48 state community colleges.

Rock Falls, Sterling students graduate from Iowa State; Whiteside County students earn diplomas from Wisconsin Lutheran College.

Cary District 26 is one step closer to building a new transportation center next to Aldi after a fight with the village over earlier plans at the old Maplewood School.

Check out who was honored on college dean and president's lists, and who earned a diploma.

Lockport Township announced the winners of its Lockport Township Government College Scholarships and the first Lockport Township Military Family College Scholarship.

Young inventors are spending their summer mornings designing gadgets, solving real-world problems and tapping into their creativity at Camp Invention, a weeklong educational program hosted at Central Intermediate School in Ottawa.

John F. Kennedy School in Spring Valley released its honor and high honor rolls for the third trimester of the 2024-25 school year.

The IV Leads Foundation has donated $28,000 to the Illinois Valley Community College Foundation to establish an endowment fund that will provide ongoing scholarships for current and future IVCC students.

St. Bede Academy will destroy 2020 student records that are considered temporary records by the State of Illinois.

Joliet Job Corps could be shuttered this summer as the Trump Administration moves to end the program nationwide. The 60-year program serves students from beyond Will County.

Students from throughout the Sauk Valley are being recognized for their achievements.

St. Bede Academy released this month its list of students who made the honor roll in the spring 2025 semester.

Oglesby Washington School issued its honor and high honor rolls for the third trimester of the 2024-25 school year.

DeKalb School District 428 officials talked academic success, a new elementary school and other goals for the next year in a State of the District address this week.

Veterans of Foreign War Auxiliary Post 4668 in La Salle announced that a Peru Parkside student is a state winner of the VFW Auxiliary’s annual Illustrating America art contest.

Here is the list of Amboy High School students named to the spring 2025 semester honor roll.

Anti-Trump protests are planned in Joliet and Shorewood on Saturday on the same day as the military parade is planned in Washington D.C.

St. Bede Academy’s 42nd annual auction will be Saturday, June 14.

Trinity United Church of Christ in La Salle will host vacation Bible school June 16-18 at the church.

Read the transcript of our interview with Joliet Public Schools District 86 Superintendent Dr. Theresa Rouse and Deputy Superintendent Dr. Tanisha Cannon as they talk DEI, AI and much more

Check out Shaw Local's list of Sauk Valley-area students who have been named to dean and president's lists, earned their degrees

The Morris Community High School Board voted Monday night to renew its e-learning program as it's required to do every three years, and it renewed the program without change.

Read the transcript of our interview with Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 Superintendent Dr. Glenn Wood on DEI and the future of funding in the district, along with AI policies

Scholarships are given to those students who best exemplify the goals of PFLAG: advocacy, support, and education.

Forging additional community partnerships, streamlining hiring processes and gathering student feedback are among the initiatives outlined in a list of goals in Minooka Community High School District 111’s strategic plan in the upcoming 2025-26 school year.

Teachers and staff from Gompers Junior High School in Joliet got the opportunity to sign the floor of the school's new gym last week as construction continues.

Morris Community High School has announced the honor roll and high honor roll for the fourth quarter of the 2024-25 school year.

Immaculate Conception School held a graduation ceremony for the class of 2025 on Thursday, May 22, with Ryan Ramos leading his classmates into the church.

Read the transcript from our interview with Joliet Township High School District 204 Superintendent Dr. Karla Guseman on DEI, the Trump administration's proposed cuts, AI and more

To keep up with the rising costs of providing for students, the Yorkville School District 115 is requesting the city to make new residential developers foot a larger part of the bill.

Families throughout Whiteside County are invited to this free community event designed to spark children’s imagination and strengthen reading and family time.

Read the transcript from our interview with Lockport High School superintendent Dr. Robert McBride on federal funding cuts, DEI, AI and much more

The Illinois Community College Trustees Association has selected Sauk Valley Community College President David Hellmich as the 2025 recipient of the Gary W. Davis Ethical Leadership Award.