School districts hire superintendents’ relatives
At a packed and emotional meeting of a school board that normally draws one or two spectators, Lansing District 158 Superintendent Cecilia Heiberger on Wednesday defended how her niece and...
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Suburban school districts have board members’ relatives on payroll
In Lansing School District 158, the payroll looks a little like a family tree. At least 14 relatives of school board members — from spouses to kids to grandkids —...
Relatives often find doors open to maintenance, teacher assistant jobs
How do relatives of school board members get in the door of a district? They often work in maintenance or assist a teacher. Custodians, buildings and grounds workers, and summer...
Suburban school districts have board members’ relatives on payroll
In Lansing School District 158, the payroll looks a little like a family tree. At least 14 relatives of school board members — from spouses to kids to grandkids —...
Relatives often find doors open to maintenance, teacher assistant jobs
How do relatives of school board members get in the door of a district? They often work in maintenance or assist a teacher. Custodians, buildings and grounds workers, and summer...
Student charged after thrown apple hurts band member
A Riverside-Brookfield High School student faces misdemeanor juvenile charges after he allegedly threw an apple that struck a band member during a school assembly, authorities said Tuesday. Police said they...
High school test scores fall to a new low
About half of Illinois public high school students flunked state exams in reading, math and science this year, the worst performance in the history of the 11th-grade Prairie State Achievement...
Learning how prepared Illinois high schoolers are for college
With this story, there were no secret sources or documents passed to us in a basement parking garage (this once happened to one of my education colleagues). All of these...
Illinois students inch up ACT scores
Illinois' Class of 2011 posted the highest average ACT score in a decade — 20.9 — but the performance fell below the national average and most graduates left high school...
School fees paid after Tribune story published
Teenager Jessica Good had fallen back to sleep on the couch late this morning when the doorbell rang.It was a woman named Debby Sutherland, who had driven from south suburban...