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Students at Morgan Park Academy in a science class. (Morgan Park Academy)

Morgan Park Academy reduces tuition, celebrates ranking as top private school

By Elena Tittel

October 16, 2026 at 6:30 a.m.

Morgan Park Academy staff said they will reduce baseline tuition costs signifcantly for the next...

Senior Jackson Young, 18, fills out his ballot during an early voting event, Oct. 15, 2026, at Oak Park and River Forest High School. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

‘Teen Takeover for Democracy’ draws election officials to Oak Park and River Forest High School

By Cam'ron Hardy

October 16, 2026 at 5:02 a.m.

Cook County Clerk Monica Gordon visited Oak Park and River Forest High School to encourage...

Alexander Angeles, 18, left, heads to a family car with his brother, Lando Torres, to get to an evening work shift on Oct. 15, 2026, in the Southwest Side of Chicago. Angeles is a candidate for the Chicago school board District 8B. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

In Southwest Side school board race, a teenager takes on a Chicago police detective

By Kate Armanini

October 16, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Hancock High School grad Alexander Angeles is running against police detective Juan Ignacio Gonzalez for...

Joyce Ester, a south suburban native, is poised to become the next president of Governors State University in University Park. She is president of Normandale Community College in Minnesota. (Normandale Community College)

Thornridge alumna, Phoenix native in line to lead Governors State University

By Mike Nolan

April 16, 2025 at 1:47 p.m.

Joyce Ester, a Thornridge graduate originally from south suburban Phoenix, is in line to be...

Portage launching virtual school for Northwest Indiana

By Doug Ross

April 15, 2025 at 5:18 p.m.

Portage Township Schools is launching PACE Virtual Academy, aiming to draw students from across Northwest...

Munster school officials said during a Monday, April 14, 2025, school board meeting that they will share with parents the results of an investigation into an Elliott Elementary School special education teacher accused of abuse. The school is pictured March 30, 2021.

Munster school officials to provide parents with investigation results for special education teacher accused of abuse

By Michelle L. Quinn

April 15, 2025 at 4:49 p.m.

Munster school officials will meet with parents next week about an Elliott Elementary special education teacher accused...

Orland Elementary District 135 officials tour a new gym at High Point Elementary School, 14825 West Ave., in August 2024. (Orland District 135)

Orland Park District 135 OKs bids of $9.5M for work at elementary, junior high schools

By Mike Nolan

April 15, 2025 at 3:39 p.m.

About $9.5 million in work will be done at Center, Century, Centennial, Jerling, Meadow Ridge,...

Indiana State Sen. Ryan Mishler, R-Mishawaka, listens during a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing at the Indiana Statehouse in this April 13, 2023 file photo. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings, file)

Indiana Senate passes $46.8 billion budget for the next two years

By Alexandra Kukulka

April 15, 2025 at 3:17 p.m.

The Senate gave final approval to the budget Tuesday following a nearly 4 hour discussion...

Crown Point High journalism students brought home multiple awards recently from the Indiana High School Press Association at its state convention. (Photo courtesy of the Crown Point Community School Corp.)

Crown Point High journalists win state honors

By Carole Carlson

April 15, 2025 at 2:53 p.m.

Crown Point High School students earned multiple awards at the recent Indiana High School Press...

President Donald Trump, left, hugs Secretary of Education Linda McMahon after he signed an executive order in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Harvard’s challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power

By Collin Binkley

April 15, 2025 at 3:21 p.m.

On one side is Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university, with a brand so...

The Indiana Statehouse, as seen on January 4, 2021. (Michael Gard/Post-Tribune)

Braun signs property tax bill into law following late night Senate vote

By Alexandra Kukulka

April 15, 2025 at 4:43 p.m.

In a late night vote, the Indiana Senate approved Monday a property tax bill that...

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business at the Gleacher Center on April 14, 2025. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Chicago Booth renaming executive MBA program after alum donates $100M

By Robert Channick

April 15, 2025 at 10:28 a.m.

A Russian-born entrepreneur and private equity investor whose career was launched at the University of...

FILE – Hundreds of demonstrators gather on Cambridge Common during a rally at the historic park in Cambridge, Mass., Saturday, April 12, 2025, calling on Harvard University to resist what organizers described as attempts by President Trump to influence the institution. (Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via AP, File)

Trump administration freezes $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard over campus activism

By Michael Casey

April 14, 2025 at 9:27 p.m.

The federal government says it’s freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million...