About Us

SPC EDUCATION SOLUTIONS offers experience-based solutions to education and education-related problems, relying on our collective expertise and experience in virtually every aspect of education. We have grown, in eight years, into a company with three divisions, each offering specialized services.

  • SPC CONSULTING works with clients to help them achieve their goals for educational innovation and improvement, whether in public, charter or private schools and district.
  • HERMINIA PUBLICATIONS creates and disseminates information to promote, improve and support better learning, teaching and leadership.
  • PENEDO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATION is committed to educate girls to become women of knowledge, faith and service. Students who enroll and remain in our program through middle school and high school will receive financial support to a selected vocational education program, college or university.

Our goal is to advance the efforts of all educators to offer to all children – regardless of heritage, language or family income – an education that will prepare them for the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

Sunny Chico

President, SPC Education Solutions, LLC

Sunny is president of SPC Education Solutions, which currently comprises three components:

A Photo of Sunny Chico

SPC Consulting, Herminia Publishing, and Penedo Charitable Organization. Sunny is the former Region V representative for the U.S. Department of Education for Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

Before entering public service, she was Executive Director of Institutional Advancement for Waubonsee Community College, focusing on maximizing enrollment, fundraising and managing the college’s foundation. She also served as the Assistant to the Lieutenant Governor for Education for the State of Illinois where she led the state’s School-to-Work effort. Sunny worked with legislators to initiate educational reforms and created the Governor’s Human Resource Investment Council and served as its co-director.

Sunny has an extensive background in education. Certified in both bilingual education and in special education, she has taught in both elementary and high school classes. She has also been an administrator and a principal.

Sunny holds a Bachelor of Arts in Special Education from Northeastern University, Chicago, and a Master's of Education from DePaul University.