Mount Prospect
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Successful schools point to tutoring, music programsOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Don't look at toughening lesson plans if you want to improve student test scores. It's often what goes on outside a classroom that matters, according to several princip...
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Kids Fight Cancer supporters raise $150,000Oct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - A fundraising dinner that started out 23 years ago with 150 people at Studebaker's in Schaumburg, now draws more than 1,000 people annually, and consequently needs one o...
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3 ways to shuffle students in Dist. 220Oct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Barrington Area Unit District 220 officials Tuesday offered possibilities on how the crowding problem in certain schools may be solved next year. The school district's c...
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Union, Dist. 211 board make postseason demandsOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - With postseason dreams of athletes in Schaumburg-Palatine High School District 211 still hanging in the balance, the teachers union and administrators lined up Tuesday t...
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Des Plaines says it wants to jumpstart Five Corners projectOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Des Plaines seems poised to move on its newest redevelopment area just north of the downtown, planning to borrow $8 million to acquire land in the Five Corners area. Th...
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Church puts on Bears tailgate party following Sunday serviceOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Gather up your friends and family for a fun Best of The Bears Tailgate at 11:30 a.m. Sunday, following the 10:30 a.m. worship service at Barrington United Methodist Chur...
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Cook County candidate filingsOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - As of 5 p.m. Wednesday, here are the Cook County and Northwest suburban judicial sub-circuit candidates who have filed so far to run in the Feb 5 Illinois primary. Filin...
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Judge extends deadline by a month in U-46 bias caseOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Ongoing disputes over evidence in the racial bias lawsuit against Elgin Area School District U-46 prompted a federal judge to extend again the already protracted discove...
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Threat against Stevenson High a 'prank'Oct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - An Internet post threatening a Columbine-style attack against Adlai E. Stevenson High School was a prank created by a boy living in the far Northwest suburbs, the FBI sa...
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State budget deadlock may have direct impact on schoolsOct 30, 2007 11:00 pm - Suburban legislators lambasted House Speaker Mike Madigan Tuesday, saying his insistence on stalling a state budget companion bill will hurt 725 school districts. As of ...