Elgin Schools
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Dist. 303 sets new goals after improving ACT scores againAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - St. Charles Unit District 303 announced Wednesday that graduating seniors from last year continued a three-year trend of increasingly higher ACT scores. The news comes i...
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Fox Valley football teams get ready for seasonAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - The calendar said August 13, but the refreshing summer breezes that swept across the practice fields at Elgin High School on Wednesday were infused with a touch of autum...
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Barrington's thrilled about 'new' homeAug 13, 2008 11:00 pm - There is always a special feeling to the opening of high school football season. But the atmosphere should be especially electric Aug. 29 when Barrington hits its brand ...
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Community members look to new U-46 chief to nudge settlement talksAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - In the past four years, the value of the dollar has plummeted. The price of gas has risen by more than $2. New world leaders have been elected; battles won and lost. Sti...
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Dist. 128 schools may drop class ranksAug 12, 2008 11:00 pm - Libertyville and Vernon Hills high schools could be the next suburban campuses to give up class rankings. Under a plan being drafted by Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area Hi...
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Fuel cost jumps to $3 million in tentative budget for U-46Aug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Rising fuel costs and key initiatives to improve student performance are among several items factored into a tentative $364.4 million Elgin Area School District U-46 ope...
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Dist. 300 wants to tap wind downstateAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - The next time you take a drive through the country, take Interstate 55 south about 140 miles, merge onto Interstate 74 and follow it east about 10 miles. Look around you...
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Dist. 204 ready to launch all-day kindergartenAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - If current enrollment numbers are any indication, Indian Prairie Unit District 204 officials believe the switch to an all-day kindergarten format for will be a hit. Depu...
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Judge grants class-action status to U-46 bias suitAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - A federal judge has granted class-action status to a racial bias lawsuit filed 3 years ago against the state's second largest school district. In a Friday filing, Federa...
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State reps, rivals spar over pay raise optionsAug 11, 2008 11:00 pm - Democratic state Reps. Fred Crespo of Hoffman Estates and Paul Froehlich of Schaumburg, eager to reject a scheduled pay raise for Illinois legislators, say they'll donat...