District 87 News Today

Officials attribute District 87s smooth start to their shared focus on children.

Connect Transit will offer free rides through September for Bloomington-Normal library cardholders in honor of Library Card Sign-Up Month.

Bloomington School District 87 is moving through fiscal 2024 with a budget surplus.

District 87 superintendent David Mouser said he supports an incentive plan to build a high-end housing complex in Bloomington, despite the potential loss of future tax revenue.

District 89 Republican State Rep. Mike Caruso is running for the newly redistricted seat in District 87 and being challenged by Democrat Sienna Osta.

The first set of data for the Illinois State Board of Education report card is out, but it does not include much information about how schools are performing. Assessment data

Staff / WGLT District 87 is using its free summer programming to help kids reset ahead of a return to in-person learning this fall. Diane Wolf, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, said the goal is to get kids back into the social routines of going to school, as much as it is about preparing them academically. “We are offering an elementary program that is a full-day program. It operates the same hours as a regular school day—9 a.m. to 3 p.m. It offers the school bus fo...

Eric Stock / WGLT A District 87 school board candidate has distanced himself from another candidate who dropped out of the race after a history of offensive social media posts surfaced. Fitzgerald Samedy Credit courtesy Fitzgerald Samedy issued a statement to WGLT on Wednesday saying he does not support Jon Reed’s social media activity that included a litany of racist and misogynist content he either produced or shared. “As a Haitian American and a first-generation born in this country...

UPDATED 12:30 p.m. | District 87 school board candidate Jon Reed has formally withdrawn from the race, election officials said Tuesday.

Credit Michele Steinbacher / WGLT Bloomington District 87 will direct some of its upcoming federal COVID relief funding to launch a new program melding summer school and summer camp models.  The all-day, three-week program really expands the concept of summer school, and opens it up to any District 87 student, Assistant Superintendent Diane Wolf said during Wednesday’s school board meeting.  “This is a very unique way of looking at a summer enrichment program,” she said, that goes way...