Batavia Schools
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Jacobs High locked down to head off food fightJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - It all started with an innocent year-end prank. Some students at Jacobs High School brought engorged water balloons to school Friday, where they launched them in the hal...
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District 158 moves to settle lawsuit over leaksJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - One by one, Huntley Unit District 158 is settling with contractors named in a 2008 lawsuit over leaks at two of its Algonquin schools. In the lawsuit, District 158 claim...
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Fox Valley briefsJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Parade volunteers needed: Elgin's Downtown Neighborhood Association is still looking for volunteers for its Fourth of July parade. The parade begins at 9 a.m. Saturday,...
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West Dundee history buff headed to nationalsJun 14, 2009 11:00 pm - Elizabeth 'Frani' O'Toole is proof that history does repeat itself, especially when it involves Quest Academy in Palatine and the National History Fair. The sixth-grader...
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Cambridge Lakes Charter School seeks renewalJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - The Cambridge Lakes Charter School is hoping to extend its two-year run as a school of choice for Community Unit District 300. Larry Fuhrer, executive director of the sc...
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Young Elginite with troubled past helping teensJun 13, 2009 11:00 pm - Kevin Echevarria stands in the second floor hallway of Gifford Street Alternative School one recent afternoon, nervously tucking and untucking his starched button-down i...
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Dundee-Crown rallies around family of sick Carpentersville girlJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - After two years of chemotherapy, the Diaz family thought 6-year-old Cindy's leukemia was gone. "She was fine with the treatment. No more medicines at all," said Maria To...
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State looking at practical side of educationJun 11, 2009 11:00 pm - As a graduate student in Northern Ireland, I used to marvel at just how different the United Kingdom's educational system was from our own. For one, 11-year-olds took an...
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Police beatJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - This article is no longer available on dailyherald.com.
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Two former North Stars selected in MLB draftJun 10, 2009 11:00 pm - St. Charles North baseball coach Todd Genke has a unique perspective when it comes to the Major League Baseball draft. A former 22nd round pick by the Phillies in 1993,...