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West Chicago mayor steps up COVID-19 education campaignAug 29, 2020 1:00 am - West Chicago Mayor Ruben Pineda is stepping up an ongoing coronavirus pandemic education campaign in September to help combat rising cases. The city has the second-highe...
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Fremd teacher makes triumphant return following cancer battleAug 27, 2020 6:00 am - During a homecoming pep rally at William Fremd High School on Sept. 20, 2013, special education teacher T.J. Valacak said he wasn't feeling very well. This day was the l...
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District 211 adopts tentative budget, defers plan on money from land saleAug 27, 2020 1:00 am - Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board members' recent 5-2 approval of a tentative $270.7 million budget for the new school year came in conjunction with a d...
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U-46 welcomes new administratorsAug 26, 2020 11:00 pm - Elgin Area School District U-46 is preparing for the 2020-21 school year with new leaders stepping into top administrator roles. Some of these professionals have recentl...
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Schaumburg approves 149-home subdivision on District 211 landAug 26, 2020 5:15 am - Schaumburg trustees Tuesday unanimously approved a plan to build 149 single-family homes on a vacant 62-acre site, the largest concentration of new homes in the village ...
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While not 100 percent uniform regulations, preps making successful returnAug 26, 2020 1:00 am - Geneva parents who wanted to watch their daughters play tennis in a season-opening match at St. Charles East on Saturday found themselves with a new vantage point. In th...
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District 15 "tech tents" help bilingual families with e-learningAug 25, 2020 1:00 am - Figuring out how to make virtual learning work smoothly can pose challenges for students and families, particularly those who are not comfortable speaking English. To he...
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Will special-needs students fall through the cracks as school resumes?Aug 24, 2020 5:00 am - As schools begin to navigate a return to remote — and in some cases hybrid or in-person — learning, some parents of special-needs students fear their children might fall...
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Brief Zoom glitches didn't mar start of classes, school leaders sayAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - Global partial outages of Zoom videoconferencing services caused some consternation Monday for educators and students in a few suburban districts that began the school y...
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Girls golfers adjusting to new protocolsAug 24, 2020 1:00 am - The one obvious COVID-19-related adjustment high school girls golfers in the state of Illinois are having to make this fall is wearing a mask on the course. Per IHSA Ret...