Education
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Area Islamic groups band together to help Afghan refugeesOct 04, 2021 5:30 am - A coalition of Islamic groups is coming together to help new waves of Afghan refugees arriving in the Chicago area. The Council of Islamic Organizations of Greater Chica...
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Good News Sunday: Meet the players in the Mount Prospect-based women's golf league that's been around since 1941Oct 03, 2021 7:30 am - This is Good News Sunday, a compilation of some of the more upbeat and inspiring stories published recently by the Daily Herald: A women's golf league based in Mount Pro...
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District 300 school board, employees face threats, board president says
Oct 02, 2021 1:00 am - Since the start of the school year, Algonquin-based Community Unit District 300 Board members and employees have faced threats and insults from a small number of parents...
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Bartlett's Centennial Elementary School students working to spread kindnessOct 01, 2021 6:00 am - Though still feeling the regulatory impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in their classrooms, students, staff and parents at Centennial Elementary School in Bartlett are hop...
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Suburban schools brace for new TikTok challenges to smack or slap staff membersOct 01, 2021 5:00 am - Suburban school leaders are warning of yet another TikTok challenge on social media asking students to “smack a staff member on the backside” or “slap a teacher” and pos...
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Harper, Oakton to ink deal with SIU for online degree pathwaysOct 01, 2021 1:00 am - Two suburban community colleges are among the first to ink a deal with Southern Illinois University in Carbondale allowing their students to earn four-year degrees remot...
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Transformative St. Viator principal dies at 91Oct 01, 2021 1:00 am - Former St. Viator High School Principal Donald Houde died Wednesday at 91, the high school announced in a news release. Houde served from 1972 to 1979. His tenure as the...
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U-46, Alignment Collaborative for Education offer virtual event for eighth-graders Oct. 7Sep 30, 2021 11:00 pm - More than 2,500 eighth-graders and teachers in Elgin Area School District U-46 will participate on Thursday, Oct. 7, in a virtual version of "Explore 2021." The distric...
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District 220 leaders discuss efforts to close 'achievement gaps'Sep 30, 2021 5:05 am - Barrington Area Unit School District 220 encourages all students to be successful, but the achievements haven't always been equal among its diverse student body, the dis...
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Housing developer to buy 93-year-old Longfellow Center in Downers GroveSep 30, 2021 1:00 am - A 93-year-old former school building in Downers Grove will be sold to a housing developer for more than $4.1 million. Downers Grove Elementary District 58 has agreed to ...