Megan Kirby, who attended Thomas Paine Elementary School in Urbana as a child, returns to the school later this month as its new principal. Megan Kirby poses for a photo at Thomas Paine Elementary ...

URBANA, Ill. (WAND) — For Megan Kirby, stepping into the principal's office at Thomas Paine Elementary is more than a career milestone; it is a homecoming. The Urbana Board of Education has officially ...

ABOVE: Thomas Paine fourth-grade teacher Jackie Martin stands in the bat cave she and her students make each year. RIGHT: Martin holds a duckling that was hatched in her classroom. Thomas Paine fourth ...

URBANA, IL- One central Illinois school is taking on bullying. Urbana's Thomas Paine Elementary is hosting a parent workshop on bullying Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. The school says the goal is to ...

Anthony Zilis, The News-Gazette, Champaign-Urbana, Ill. Jul. 6—After attending the University of Illinois on a suggestion from her high school orchestra conductor, Jackie Martin thought she would ...