Northbrook Schools
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Benson: Ramirez is Dist. 57's scapegoatMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - In my 10 years and three terms as president of the District 57 school board I experienced the dedication and commitment Transportation Coordinator Vince Ramirez brought ...
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Vince Ramirez was excellent managerMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - I know there is a lot of controversy about Vince Ramirez's firing. As a future teacher, it worries me that there are people out there that drink before driving our child...
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Growing chorus decries music cuts among suburban schoolsMar 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Recent studies resoundingly show that music education is one of the keys to higher test scores and engaged and well-rounded students. Among them, a 2007 Northwestern Uni...
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Stevenson second at Meadows inviteMar 27, 2010 11:00 pm - The 29th annual Vic Avigliano Invitational was a test of team depth in boys gymnastics Saturday night at Rolling Meadows. With each squad only allowed to enter one gymna...
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Jacobson blasts 2 homers in Conant rompMar 25, 2010 11:00 pm - Kim Jacobson was the "two-out wrecking machine" for Conant's softball team in its 15-0 nonconference victory at Maine West Thursday. The sophomore belted 3-run homers wi...
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Man arrested in bank robberies in Hoffman Estates, SchaumburgMar 25, 2010 11:00 pm - A Lake in the Hills man was being held without bond Thursday, in connection with a pair of recent bank robberies - one in Hoffman Estates and the other in Schaumburg, ac...
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Korean War vet from Palatine is finally homeMar 24, 2010 11:00 pm - Stanley Paul Arendt figured he'd be home by Thanksgiving, Christmas at the latest. It was 1950, and Arendt was a 22-year-old American infantryman in Korea. He had alread...
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Tuntland, Oakton a big hit so farMar 23, 2010 11:00 pm - Ryan Tuntland went on a spring break rampage in Florida last week. But the way Tuntland tore things up had positive ramifications for the Oakton College baseball program...
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Buffalo Grove atheist fighting state construction spendingMar 23, 2010 11:00 pm - SPRINGFIELD - A Buffalo Grove atheist claims that $2.3 billion worth of construction grants are unconstitutionally going toward religious organizations. Rob Sherman brou...
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Suit seeks to compel reform in education fundingMar 23, 2010 11:00 pm - The state of Illinois is facing a new lawsuit charging that its method of funding education, based as it is heavily on property taxes, is inequitable. The suit was filed...