University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– The Office of Career Services at Governors State University is sponsoring a career fair featuring employers in the field of criminal justice. Current students, alumni, and community members interested in finding employment in law enforcement, the criminal justice system, and related fields are encouraged to attend. Potential[Read More…]

University Park, IL–(ENEWSPF)– Governors State University will host Instant Decision Day: An Undergraduate Open House on Saturday, March 27, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The free event is open to all students looking to transfer into one of GSU’s bachelor’s degree completion programs. Prospective students are encouraged to bring[Read More…]

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2010.  The College Illinois! 529 Prepaid Tuition Program has partnered with the Chicago Wolves to put fears about how to pay for college on ice, offering Wolves hockey fans the chance to learn about how to save for college the prepaid way at two upcoming events March 7[Read More…]

Chapel Hill, NC–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2010.  More than one-half of school districts that randomly drug test their students impose punitive punishments for test failures that are contrary to federal advisory guidelines, according to a national study published in the Journal of School Health and summarized in the January 2010 online edition[Read More…]

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 4, 2010.  Today the Department of Education announced that 15 states and the District of Columbia will advance as finalists for phase 1 of the Race to the Top competition. Race to the Top is the Department’s $4.35 billion effort to dramatically re-shape America’s educational system to better[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 4, 2010.  In response to a recent government investigation that found widespread allegations that children were being abused through misuses of restraint and seclusion in classrooms, the U.S. House of Representatives today approved bipartisan legislation to protect children from inappropriate uses of these practices in schools. The Keeping[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 3, 2010.  Assistant Senate Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL) today announced that the Department of Commerce (DOC) has awarded $22,534,776 through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to build 187 miles of fiber-optic broadband network in Urbana, Champaign,[Read More…]

WASHINGTON, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2010.  With child obesity and child hunger both on the rise, Congress has a critical opportunity to help children be healthy and succeed in school by improving access to and the quality of the U.S. child nutrition programs and the Women Infants and Children (WIC), witnesses told[Read More…]

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–March 2, 2010 -Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA will award close to $6.5 million in grants to seven State agencies for training and technology projects to improve the quality of school meals and the administration of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The Administrative Review and Training[Read More…]

Forest Trail Middle School. (Photo: Gary Kopycinski) Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A team of students in a sixth grade honors class at Park Forest-Chicago Heights School District 163’s Forest Trail Middle Grade Center ranked first in the region among fourth through eighth grade students in the Capitol Challenge of the national[Read More…]