Emily Hays

Champaign

Reporter at Illinois Newsroom

Reporter at WILL-TV (Urbana, IL)

Reporter @willpublicmedia, ex @newhavenindy @cvilletomorrow @goodreasonradio. Opinions my own.

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Rural library funding threats

3 days ago | npr.org | Emily Hays
School board votes out Champaign Unit 4 Superintendent Shelia Boozer

1 week ago | ipmnewsroom.org | Emily Hays

CHAMPAIGN — The first Black, female superintendent of Champaign Unit 4 schools has been pushed out after four years. The majority of the school board voted Thursday to approve a separation agreement with Superintendent Shelia Boozer. The move received vocal disapproval from a largely Black audience of parents and civil rights leaders. “Your leadership as superintendent of Champaign Unit 4 schools has been transformative. You didn’t just lead. You made us feel like we belong,” parent and Booker T.
Champaign Unit 4 school board to finalize Superintendent Shelia Boozer's departure

1 week ago | ipmnewsroom.org | Emily Hays

CHAMPAIGN — The Champaign Unit 4 Board of Education plans to vote on a separation agreement Thursday with Superintendent Shelia Boozer. Another administrator, Executive Director of Facilities and Services Dan Casillas, would be appointed acting superintendent, according to the meeting agenda. The school board was divided over Boozer’s tenure for two years before the election last month. In April, voters elected a majority that support replacing her as superintendent.
Rural library funding threats : NPR

1 week ago | businessandamerica.com | Emily Hays

For years, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has supported rural libraries. However, cuts by the Trump administration could jeopardize their future. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: There are 9,000 public libraries in the United States, excluding branches and bookmobiles. About two-thirds are in rural areas or towns according to federal data.
Rural library funding threats

1 week ago | kuow.org | Emily Hays

For years, the Institute of Museum and Library Services has supported rural libraries. However, cuts by the Trump administration could jeopardize their future.
Rural library funding threats

1 week ago | npr.org | Emily Hays
Catholics in Central Illinois overjoyed by the election of a pope from Chicago

4 weeks ago | ipmnewsroom.org | Emily Hays

CHAMPAIGN — Catholics in Champaign felt a mix of shock, joy, and optimism for the future following the election of the first pope from the United States — and from Illinois. Cardinal Robert Prevost grew up in the Chicago area before spending years in Peru as a minister and later archbishop. The College of Cardinals selected him at the Vatican Thursday as he took on the title of Pope Leo XIV.
Faculty members urge University of Illinois to join Big Ten mutual defense compact

1 month ago | ipmnewsroom.org | Emily Hays

URBANA — University of Illinois faculty members are urging the school to join an effort to protect Big Ten universities from being targeted by the Trump administration. Under the “mutual academic defense compact,” participating schools would share financial and legal resources in the face of any challenges from the federal government. The U of I faculty, staff and student senate became the ninth out of 18 Big Ten faculty bodies to voice support for the idea.
The federal library department has put almost all of its staff on leave. What does that mean for your town’s library? - IPM Newsroom

1 month ago | ipmnewsroom.org | Emily Hays

GREENUP — On a Friday afternoon in April, circulation clerk Vicki Pierce locked up the Greenup Township Public Library with a book called “Walking on Water” in hand. Pierce was taking the book to an elderly woman on her way home. “We want people to use the library, and so if we have to bring the library to them, that works for us,” she said.
Illinois lawmakers are considering whether to reestablish parole. It's not an easy path out of jail, a new documentary shows

1 month ago | ipmnewsroom.org | Emily Hays |Emily Hays started

SAVOY — Ronnie Carrasquillo was among the last sentenced before the state ended parole in 1978. Unlike everyone convicted since then, he’s had the chance to ask the parole board to release him early. Instead, he was denied parole over 30 times. Year after year, the Illinois Prisoner Review Board debated his actions at age 18, when he shot at a fighting crowd from over a block away and killed a plainclothes police officer. “I’m the oldest 18-year-old you know.

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Rural library funding threats

School board votes out Champaign Unit 4 Superintendent Shelia Boozer

Champaign Unit 4 school board to finalize Superintendent Shelia Boozer's departure

Rural library funding threats : NPR

Rural library funding threats

Rural library funding threats

Catholics in Central Illinois overjoyed by the election of a pope from Chicago

Faculty members urge University of Illinois to join Big Ten mutual defense compact

The federal library department has put almost all of its staff on leave. What does that mean for your town’s library? - IPM Newsroom

Illinois lawmakers are considering whether to reestablish parole. It's not an easy path out of jail, a new documentary shows

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