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Schools across west-central Illinois are pushing to hire more bus drivers and substitute teachers.

School districts are struggling to find a balance between following state mandates...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Schools want to follow health rules, but say they first need to know what the rules will be Samantha McDaniel Ogletree, Journal-Courier FacebookTwitterEmail To mask or not to mask? That’s just one question for which school officials have few answers as they prepare for the coming academic year.  With the reopening of the state following the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, school officials are left to prepare for the 2021-22 school year without much informa...

Meredosia schools hope to spark a new interest in sports Shirley Bilyeu, Journal-Courier FacebookTwitterEmail The Meredosia-Chambersburg school board is looking at ways to convince more students to participate in sports. Kirk Graham, who handles student services for the district and also is a math teacher at the junior-senior high school addressed the board, sharing a report on athletes. It is important to get students interested in sports, he said, explaining that extracurricular activities c...

Meredosia-Chambersburg school board weighing finance options Shirley Bilyeu, Journal-Courier FacebookTwitterEmail The Meredosia-Chambersburg school board is weighing its options to increase the district’s working cash fund, including the possibility of issuing $1.5 million in working cash fund bonds. The district will lose an estimated $200,000 in state aid next year. It already has lost around $8,000 in aid this month, Superintendent Thad Walker said.Journal-Courier The Meredosia-Chambersb...