Education
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2 bidders out, so District 211 still has land to sellMay 10, 2019 5:00 am - A home developer whose top bid for Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211's 62 acres of vacant land in Schaumburg was approved 14 months ago has backed out of the ...
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Best-selling author Veronica Roth returns to her old middle school in BarringtonMay 10, 2019 1:00 am - Best-selling author Veronica Roth - known for the "Divergent" trilogy - visited her middle school alma mater in Barrington as part of a nationwide webcast Friday. Roth s...
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St. Isidore School names new principalMay 09, 2019 11:00 pm - An educator with deep roots at St. Isidore School, Corinne Alimento, has been named principal at the Bloomingdale school and will begin work here this summer. She will s...
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Buffalo Grove kindergarten teacher honored by Archdiocese of ChicagoMay 09, 2019 1:00 am - Kindergarten teacher Mary Jo Elsey of St. Mary School in Buffalo Grove has been honored with a Heart of the Future award by the Archdiocese of Chicago. This award recogn...
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Nominations open for statewide top teacher awardsMay 09, 2019 1:00 am - Know any outstanding and inspiring teachers who deserve recognition? The Illinois State Board of Education is accepting nominations for the 2020 Illinois Teacher of the ...
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Elgin man accused of making school threat on social mediaMay 09, 2019 1:00 am - A 23-year-old Elgin man was charged with threatening a school after police said he made a general social media post Tuesday with a picture of a rifle and the words "Don'...
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Buffalo Grove Rotary offering scholarshipsMay 09, 2019 1:00 am - The Buffalo Grove Rotary Club is offering academic scholarships of up to $2,000 to current students or graduates of Buffalo Grove and Stevenson high schools. Applicants ...
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Competition fierce for Gurnee Teacher of the Year awardsMay 09, 2019 1:00 am - This year's winners of Gurnee's Teacher of the Year awards illustrate how important the honor has become and how fierce the competition is, officials said. In Woodland E...
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After 33 years at Naperville Central, Reimers has storiesMay 08, 2019 1:00 am - On Glen Reimers' first day teaching at Naperville Central, he drove up ... and got rear-ended right in front of the place. "Whoo, what a start," he said of that inauspi...
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Second COD president finalist meets the publicMay 08, 2019 1:00 am - Ken Trzaska began his career in higher education when he landed a job at the College of DuPage's writing center. More than two decades later, the 46-year-old returned to...