Washington Community High School child development classes invite children in the preschool program for 3 and 4 year olds.

Washington teachers spent Friday at the 2008 Heart of Illinois Education Conference at East Peoria Community High School.

The Washington Fire Department capped off a week of visiting local schools to talk about fire safety as part of Fire Prevention Week with an open house Oct. 12.

Community members give input on building

Dozens of staff members, parents and former students of Washington Community High School turned out to have a voice in the school’s future renovation plans at a special brainstorming meeting and tour Oct. 1.

The Tazewell Regional Office of Education is accepting applications for persons wishing to register for GED testing for the month of October.

The practice of granting driving privileges to 16-year-olds is being questioned by a national insurance industry group.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is promoting raising the age for a license to 17 or 18.

Answering market demand for highly skilled financial industry professionals, Bradley University has developed two new interdisciplinary degree programs to give graduates the skills, tools and techniques to prepare them for careers in the field.

The Tazewell Regional Office of Education is accepting applications for persons wishing to register for GED testing for the month of October.

Once again, Homecoming week has arrived, and Washington Community High School has been busy planning this year’s activities.

The critical state of funding for community colleges in Illinois due to high tuition costs and dwindling resources was the topic of a special meeting hosted by Illinois Central College in East Peoria on Monday.

Sixty-three teachers and staff completed an anonymous online survey about the crisis drill at Washington Community High School in May, giving it a passing grade.

One of the questions asked respondents to rate the effectiveness of the drill.

School board members hire BLDD Architects

Washington is growing, and with it is the high school’s student population.

Student enrollment at the end of the 2007-08 school year was slightly beyond building capacity, said superintendent Dr. Jim Dunnan.

Library, historical society use unique tool to teach about past

Shelves and shelves of what looks like buried treasure are taking up space in a storage closet at the Washington District Library.

Those treasures are about to be unearthed as another school year begins for Washington students.