• District 300 first to offer fourth-year math course

  By Tara García Mathewson Seniors at Jacobs, Hampshire and Dundee-Crown high schools will have the opportunity to take a new math class next year with a textbook designed especially for them. The course was developed by the Alliance for College Readiness which includes Elgin Community College and all of its feeder high school districts — Elgin Area School District U-46, St. Charles Community Unit District 303, Burlington-based Central Unit District 301, and Carpentersville-based Community Unit District 300, the only district to offer the course next year.
  Last Updated May 14, 2013 11:24 PM

• District 300 first to offer fourth-year math course

  Updated May 14, 2013 5:07 PM

  Seniors at Jacobs, Hampshire and Dundee-Crown high schools will have the opportunity to take a new math class next year with a textbook designed especially for them. The course was developed by the Alliance for College Readiness which includes Elgin Community College and all of its feeder high school districts — Elgin Area School District U-46, St. Charles Community Unit District 303, Burlington-based Central Unit District 301, and Carpentersville-based Community Unit District 300, the only district to offer the course next year.

• Fox Valley police reports

  Posted May 14, 2013 4:49 PM

  Mark A. Clough, 46, of South Elgin, appeared in Kane County bond court Tuesday on charges of arson, a felony, according to court records. Elgin police responded to a fire just before 10 p.m. April 28 at Advance Engineering Corp., 440 S. McLean Blvd., and an arson investigator determined the fire could not have started on its own, according to police reports. After several interviews Clough admitted to using a lighter to ignite the wrapping on a section of pipe in the building, costing the company $46,000 to reverse the damages, police reports said. Bail was set at $30,000.

• Dist. 300 considers second online charter school plan

  Updated May 13, 2013 11:14 PM

  Community Unit District 300 board members have moved from one charter school proposal to another, holding a public hearing for the Illinois Online Charter School. The charter would be for Northern Kane Educational Corp., which already runs the Cambridge Lakes Charter School in Pingree Grove and serves District 300 students, but also extend to others in the state.

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