Maple Park Opinion
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Community colleges at forefront of meeting new needs in higher educationDec 21, 2015 12:00 am - Community colleges are an American innovation designed to provide equal access to higher education. Illinois is the proud home of our nation's very first public communit...
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Editorial: Find cause of shrinking achievement gap for Hispanics at ECC and spread itDec 16, 2015 10:00 pm - As the Daily Herald's Poverty Achievement Index has borne out, whether in previous standardized state tests or the just-released results of the new PARCC test, there is ...
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Holding the line on Kane County taxesNov 21, 2015 11:00 pm - As Kane County Board chairman, I would like to thank each member of the county board and each commissioner of the forest preserve who once again voted to freeze the prop...
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Financial literacy a critical college curriculumOct 19, 2015 1:00 am - In Elgin Community College's Game of Life, students move from station to station selecting a career, paying taxes and student loan payments, housing and transportation c...
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Editorial: Intervention a key component in campus protectionsOct 07, 2015 11:00 pm - A day after the shootings at Umpqua Community College in Oregon last week, Elgin Community College officials announced ECC had become the first college in the suburbs to...
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Politicians providing fiction, not fact on LongmeadowSep 02, 2015 1:00 am - Algonquin Village President John Schmitt has gone to great lengths to put a positive spin on the Longmeadow highway and bridge project. This four-lane 50 mph highway wo...
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Editorial: Playing it smart at summer schoolJul 13, 2015 11:00 pm - It's July 17, the temperature is north of 80. Your friends are at the pool, kicking back and getting nothing done. Or working a minimum-wage job to keep busy before scho...
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Soapbox: Buffalo Grove, Long Grove agree; monks sue Benedictine; Mundelein councilman's apology and moreJun 27, 2015 1:00 am - Better service, less cost: Kudos to Buffalo Grove and Long Grove for cutting a deal for the former to do property maintenance inspections for the latter. Long Grove...
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Editorial: Drug court - A tool that's workingJun 16, 2015 11:00 pm - If there is one thing that our intensive reporting on the scourge of heroin in the suburbs has taught us over the past two decades, it's that heroin can ruin the lives o...
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Editorial: More innovation from community colleges, NIUJun 14, 2015 11:00 pm - Community colleges may still have a way to go before establishing their own four-year degree programs, but five suburban community colleges took a step last week that es...