An incumbent who’s been on the school board for the past 25 years and a first-time candidate  are  the choices voters have for a seat on the Riverside School Board .

The recent grant will be beneficial because we’ve found that children across the board are … not funded for alternative ...

Scientists analyzed data from more than one million users of 23andMe and found associations between certain genes and ...

Kids who have trouble with their speech are often the ones suffering because there is a shortage of speech-language pathologists. And when that shortage started affecting students in the Carthage ...

Hope School is the Jackson County School District’s school for students with special needs. Federal law requires school ...

The barriers special educators face include underfunding, staffing shortages, and inaccessible materials. These are also ...

EIU's 2025 Alumni Award recipients are Michael Babcock, Tim and Vickie Burke, Barbara Goodson, David Kidwell, Dana Phelps and ...

More than 100 teachers, aides and parents of special needs students in the district packed a board meeting Tuesday, Oct. 15, ...

Geyser Road Elementary School cut the ribbon on its outdoor classroom, an idea that has been built over the last decade. A ...

At just 24 years old, Xavier Smith was working full-time and studying at night to become an air conditioning technician. He was especially excited after moving into his first apartment, ...

Whether speech pathologist Mark Gridley did something criminal when he pulled seven young girls out of class and allegedly ...

Just before her son’s second birthday, Abigail Warneke grew concerned that he still wasn’t speaking many words.