49+ min ago   (150+ words) Five Lincoln-Way East students removed from Homewood-Flossmoor football game for ‘racist harassment’ Chicago Tribune Five Lincoln-Way East students were removed from a varsity football game Friday night for allegedly conducting “racist harassment” and displaying “offensive” behavior toward Homewood-Flossmoor fans in…...

6+ hour, 37+ min ago   (284+ words) The chairman of a Chicago-area community college, who is the brother of Rosemont’s mayor, has stepped down from his position after he was charged with felony drug possession in July. Triton College announced Saturday that Mark Stephens, chairman of the…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (672+ words) When Northwest Indiana residents faced extensive power outages last month after a tornado and derecho, libraries welcomed them to use their free wifi. Established by Congress in 1996, the Federal Communications Commission’s E-Rate program helps libraries and schools eliminate 20-90% of their…...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (414+ words) Former Valparaiso Community Schools Superintendent Jim McCall no longer has a consulting contract with the district. The School Board voted recently to cancel the contract, in which McCall was paid $3,000 a month, as needed, to advise new Superintendent Brian Smith....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1176+ words) Area schools are negotiating with the Indiana Department of Education over how to address instructional days lost after the Aug. 11 derecho clobbered Northwest Indiana just as many districts were planning to start their school year. Students in some of the…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (631+ words) Patricia Thrash was a longtime administrator at Northwestern University — including the university’s final dean of women — before shaping nationwide higher education policy at what is now The Higher Learning Commission, an accrediting body based in Chicago that operated across a…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (611+ words) UChicago medicine Hinsdale and La Grange Hospitals presented $4,000 scholarships earlier this summer to 12 area high school students, recognizing their leadership, academic achievement and interest in pursuing health care-related careers. Scholars were Lyons Township High School students Daniel Aviles Jr., Carly…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (534+ words) If a muscle atrophies, our bodies weaken. We can’t walk very far, we can’t lift things. When your ability to think atrophies, well, that’s arguably a whole lot worse. “Cogito, ergo sum,” or — “I think, therefore I am,” as René…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago   (556+ words) WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is proposing a new rule that would strip private schools and colleges of their tax-exempt status if they provide targeted help to students based on their race, a significant escalation in the White House’s campaign to…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (794+ words) There’s something incredibly soothing about going to bed on a Sunday night knowing you don’t have to get up early. And then getting up early anyway. One of the best things about retirement is the pure luxury of slow Monday…...