Olympia Fields, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Rich Central High School published names of honor roll students for the third quarterof the 2009-2010 school year. Students receiving Gold Honors (4.0 G.P.A. and above) include: SENIORS: Simisola Alalade, Adebola Ayeni, Danielle Brown, Brittany Davis, Demetri Edwards, Jaye Foley, Andrea Freeman, Paris Freeman, Shannon Gant, Sernard[Read More…]

WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)—April 15, 2010. The House Education and Labor Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities held a hearing today examining the role of corporal punishment in public schools and its effect on student achievement. The American Civil Liberties Union strongly opposes the use of physical discipline in public schools and, in[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 15, 2010.  The following essay penned by Dr. Jill Biden will be featured in the April 23 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Community Colleges: Our Work Has Just BegunJill Biden I have been a teacher for almost three decades and a community-college instructor for the past[Read More…]

University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Title V Latino Center for Excellence is sponsoring a free symposium for students, faculty, advisors, and administrators from across the region on May 14, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at GSU. The symposium will address the issues and concerns facing Latino and other students from[Read More…]

Olympia Fields, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Rich Central High School Entrepreneurship class, under the educational guidance and leadership of Ms. Hope Stovall Henderson, will host the 3rd Annual Entrepreneurship Breakfast on Saturday, April 17th at Rich Central High School. The school says this year’s event with the theme, "Success Is Our Business,"[Read More…]

University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Transformations Lecture Series at Governors State University concludes with “The Transformation of Health Care for Underserved Populations” presented by Dr. Aida Giachello, Professor of Social Work at the University of Illinois-Chicago, on Wednesday, April 21, at 5 p.m., in the Hall of Honors. Dr. Giachello is[Read More…]

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Park Forest-Chicago Heights School District 163 will conduct “Kindergarten, Here I Come” to pre-register children for the 2010-2011 school year from 9:30 to 10:45 a.m., Friday, April 23, 2010. Children must be five-years-old on or before September 1, 2010, to register for the 2010-2011 school year. Parents/guardians[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2010.  Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and of the Senate Appropriations panel that funds education initiatives, introduced the Keep Our Educators Working Act today.  The bill will create a $23 billion Education Jobs Fund to help keep teachers, principals,[Read More…]