Park Ridge Schools
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Grateful that Dist. 21 teachers stepped upMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - I am a parent who has two children that attend schools in Community Consolidated District 21. I would like to wholeheartedly thank all of the teachers and their negotiat...
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Why is Dist. 26 board dragging this out?Mar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - I totally agree with Mr. James Meyer's Neighbor Fencepost submission in today's (March 22) Daily Herald. This situation clearly comes under the classic dogma of "If it a...
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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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Students giving lessons in democracyMar 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Sixth-grader Ryan Patterson, high school sophomore Spencer Armstrong and college junior Stacey Stolz all may be good students in school but they also realize that commun...
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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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Wheeling's Hart tosses 1-hitter at Round LakeMar 26, 2010 11:00 pm - Wheeling junior right-hander Matt Hart kept pumping fastballs past visiting Round Lake hitters in Friday's nonconference baseball game. Hart ended up throwing a 1-hitter...
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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...