Rev. David Goins was elected mayor for the City of Alton during the April 6 municipal election with 2021 votes in ‘21, making history as Alton’s first African American mayor.
EDWARDSVILLE - A student and her mother are suing a school district over allegations the defendants failed to act appropriately after being informed that a teacher allegedly engaged in sexual activities with a minor.
Over the past five years, schools in the Metro East have paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties for giving teachers in the twilight of their careers pension-boosting raises.
The Edwardsville/Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce has weighed in on the proposed 1 percent County School Facilities Tax (CSFT). And while the organization has not taken an explicit "anti" position, its analysis leans that way.
ALTON – Alton School District Superintendent Mark Cappel thinks the stakes are high enough in the Madison County sales tax debate to justify taking his message to basically anyone who will listen.
Forty-eight area school districts would receive an extra $15.5 million this year if the Illinois House accepts Gov. Bruce Rauner's version of a school funding bill, according to an analysis by the Illinois State Board of Education.
Madison County Treasurer Chris Slusser said his office will be expediting property tax distributions in September to help some local school districts at least temporarily avoid a funding crisis, according to a press release from his office.
Craney Madison County Circuit Judge Ann Callis set an Oct.1 trial date in a lawsuit filed by the mother of an Alton teen who allegedly had a sexual relationship with her music teacher.
Craney O'Fallon Township High School has responded to a plaintiff's fourth amended complaint alleging a former teacher had a sexual relationship with an Alton teen.
Craney The mother of an Alton teen who allegedly had a sexual relationship with her music teacher filed a fourth amended complaint Tuesday in Madison County Chief Circuit Judge Ann Callis' courtroom.
Falb The parties in a suit brought by a woman over her teenage daughter's sexual relationship with a music teacher have set out the case's road to trial next year.
O'Fallon School District 203 denies that it had any part in what came to be an illicit sexual relationship between former music teacher Matthew Lang and an Alton high school student in answers and defenses filed April 4 in a suit brought by the teen's mother.
