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Peter Medlin
Education ReporterPeter is an award-winning education reporter who has been at WNIJ since 2018. He’s also the host of Teachers’ Lounge: a listener-driven podcast & radio show telling the story of education through conversations with teachers and students. He grew up in Sandwich, Illinois, and graduated from North Central College. When he’s not writing & reporting, Peter loves to run at forest preserves across northern Illinois, cook, & hang out with his cat.
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A new Illinois law mandates all school staff receive training on how to identify and support homeless students. Peter Medlin has more…
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We’re welcoming our brand-new classroom correspondent for the 2024-2025 school year. We've got all of those in-depth education stories and more!
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Kathy started her teaching career in 1965 and…to say they threw her right into the deep end…oof."When I started teaching, as a teacher, you were extremely isolated," she said. "You were closed in this room with them. In my second year of teaching, I had 50 3rd graders!"We talk about how in the world you teach that many kids at once, how she evolved as a teacher as she got older and adapted to new teaching styles and technology. We hear some of her favorite stories from over the years and much more.
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Thursday was the grand opening of the new Hard Rock Casino in Rockford. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports…
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Distritos escolares en todo el país han recibido millones de dólares en alivio federal hacia el COVID tras los últimos años. Esos fondos se terminan el próximo mes. Peter Medlin de WNIJ tiene la noticia...
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School districts across the country have received millions of dollars of federal COVID relief over the past few years. That funding expires next month. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports…
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Last year, United Auto Workers Union President Shawn Fain joined President Joe Biden in Belvidere to celebrate a new contract that included re-opening Stellantis' Belvidere plant. On Aug. 22, Fain returned to meet with UAW members after Stellantis announced it intends to delay the projects.
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On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast -- we all want to eat good food and we all want to live in a beautiful home. So, when you teach Food and interior design like Katey -- it’s not that hard to make the lessons feel relevant.
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La presidenta de NIU Lisa Freeman dice que, ahora mismo, la forma en que las universidades públicas de Illinois son financiadas... no tiene mucho sentido.“Necesitamos una fórmula de financiación que sea racional, que considere el tamaño de la institución, la misión de la institución y el tipo de estudiantes que sirve la institución.”Un nuevo proyecto de ley crearía una formula como esa. ¿Cómo funcionaría? ¿Cuánto dinero inyectaría a las universidades?
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NIU president Lisa Freeman says, right now, the way Illinois public universities are funded…doesn’t make much sense.“We need a funding formula that's rational, that considers the size of the institution, the mission of the institution and the type of students that the institution serves.”A new bill would create a formula like that. How would it work? And how much money would it pump into universities?