$45 Million Investment to Expand and Improve Vital Education Services in Communities Across Illinois CICERO–(ENEWSPF)–December 19, 2012. Governor Pat Quinn today joined students, families and teachers to announce $45 million for vital improvements to early childhood education facilities in high-need communities across Illinois. The 14 Early Childhood Construction Grants (ECCG)[Read More…]

Honors Burnett’s outstanding performance on Jeopardy! CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 18, 2012. Governor Pat Quinn today issued the following proclamation. WHEREAS, in 1832, Abraham Lincoln commented on the importance of education by stating “I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be[Read More…]

New Investment Supports 60 School Learning Gardens at CPS Schools Across the City, Providing Students With Hands-On Nutrition and Science Education Opportunities CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2012. Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced yesterday that $1 million in NATO legacy funds will support the development of learning gardens at 60 Chicago Public Schools (CPS)[Read More…]

Rates increase January 1 for program that makes college costs more manageable for Illinois families CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 17, 2012. Families of Illinois college-bound children have only until December 31 to invest in a College Illinois! 529 Prepaid Tuition plan at 2011 rates before contract prices increase four percent on January 1,[Read More…]

CFPB Examiners to Verify that Student Lenders are Following the Law WASHINGTON, D.C.—(ENEWSPF)—December 17, 2012. Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published the procedures it will use in examining student lenders. The Student Lending Examination Procedures are an extension of the CFPB’s General Supervision and Examination Manual and will[Read More…]

Chicago Heights, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Prairie State College (PSC) is hosting a New Directions information session for returning adult students on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, at 6 p.m., in the Conference Center on the main campus, located at 202 S. Halsted St. in Chicago Heights. "At Prairie State College, we understand that[Read More…]

Chicago Heights, IL-(ENEWSPF)- Linda Zroskie, Prairie State College (PSC) associate professor nursing has received a 2013 Nurse Educator Fellowship Award from the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE). The competitive award recognizes well-qualified nursing faculty at institutions of higher learning that award degrees in nursing. The award is an incentive[Read More…]

CHICAGO HEIGHTS—(ENEWSPF)—December 14, 2012. Prairie State College recently was named a Bronze Level Compact School by the Illinois Green Governments Coordinating Council (GGCC) within the Illinois Campus Sustainability Compact program. PSC fulfilled all the requirements of the Bronze Level which included endorsing a written statement acknowledging support for sustainability, designating[Read More…]

New Rigorous Programmes Are Part of Efforts to Increase Opportunities for Parents and Students to Access to High-Quality Education in their Neighborhoods CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2012. Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett announced today that Taft High School and Lincoln Park High School will become the[Read More…]

Hearing Focuses on the Overuse of School Discipline and Juvenile Court Referrals Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–December 13, 2012. Assistant Majority Leader Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights, held a hearing yesterday on the school-to-prison pipeline. The first-ever Congressional hearing on the[Read More…]