Woodstock Schools
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Did Ex-Huntley Dist. 158 special ed. chief pump up job application?Mar 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Documents obtained recently by the Daily Herald paint a contradictory picture of what transpired when a former special education director in Huntley Unit District 158 ap...
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Cary Dist. 26 places burden on union to save jobsMar 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Cary Elementary District 26 placed the ball in the teacher's union's court Monday night, asking the union to agree to concessions for its members in exchange for saving ...
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Schools superintendents riding the fence on income tax increaseMar 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Throwing support behind an income tax increase is a political hot potato for local legislators. It's also one for school superintendents, who, across the suburbs, have s...
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District 300 board lays off more than 100Mar 08, 2010 10:00 pm - As expected, the Community Unit District 300 school board on Monday laid off more than 100 teachers to cope with almost $6 million in delayed state payments. But the dra...
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District 158 finance chief gets promotion, raiseMar 07, 2010 10:00 pm - Huntley Unit District 158 has a chief financial officer for the first time in three years. The district last month promoted Mark Altmayer from comptroller to CFO. Distri...
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Fighting back against the tide of school budget cutsMar 07, 2010 10:00 pm - Second of two parts Brad Hawk has a bird's-eye view of what he calls "a perfect financial storm." The former superintendent of Central Unit District 301 in western Kane ...
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District 300 cuts would hit parochial school families hardMar 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Last month, the Community Unit District 300 school board heard an earful from parents who oppose proposed cuts to transportation for the dual language program. That disp...
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Five wrestlers charged in hazing incidentMar 05, 2010 10:00 pm - Police arrested five Prairie Ridge High School wrestlers Friday on misdemeanor battery charges claiming they hazed teammates on multiple occasions at the Crystal Lake sc...
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Schools wait on answers from SpringfieldMar 04, 2010 10:00 pm - Life can be tough for a nontenured teacher. It is routine for many school districts to essentially lay off all their nontenured teachers at the end of the year only to ...
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Huntley Dist. 158 goes from surplus to deficitMar 04, 2010 10:00 pm - In an indication of the worsening prognosis for Illinois education funding, Huntley Unit District 158's draft budget for the 2010-11 school year has gone from having a $...