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The NEA Foundation today announced that five educators will be presented with Horace Mann Awards for Teaching Excellence, one of public education's top honors, at the Salute to Excellence in Education next spring. The Foundation also will host the premiere screening of documentary films about the awardees' impact inside and outside the classroom during the event.

NAPERVILLE — Lelia Peradotti learned about fentanyl while she was baking cookies.

NAPERVILLE, Ill. -- Lelia Peradotti learned about fentanyl while she was baking cookies. She still remembers that phone call from her mother, Susan Peradotti, who was in shock after she walked into her partner’s apartment to find him slumped over the kitchen sink next to a hot stove, a cold spoon and a white powder. A coroner’s report reviewed by Susan Peradotti found the synthetic opioid ...

SPRINGFIELD, IL-(Effingham Radio)-The state's largest union, the Illinois Education Association (IEA), today h...

During his senior year at Naperville Central High School in 2020–21, Braden Hajer helped pass House Bill 234, mandating that every public high school in Illinois include a unit of media literacy education in its curriculum.

Illinois became the first state in the country to require media literacy education to be taught at schools through the tenacity of a former Naperville Central High School student.

fault. the collision happened on east lee highway near germantown road just before 11:00 last night. delia goncalves has more information. >> i just heard boom. >> reporter: a deadly collision drew dozens of onlookers lining up along the highway to see the carnage themselves. >> its devastating to know that took place. its heartbreaking. it really is. >> reporter: police say 27-year- old dejon williams was traveling with her two daughters in the honda civic that burst into flames when ...