Education
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Staff cuts coming to Kaneland schools if enrollment continues to dropMar 13, 2018 1:00 am - Kaneland school district officials say they may not need the equivalent of nine full-time teachers next school year, as student enrollment continues to decline. The scho...
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Information session about service academies April 4 in WheelingMar 13, 2018 1:00 am - High school students interested in attending a military service academy can learn more about them and the nomination process during an information session at 6 p.m. Wedn...
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Buffalo Grove Rotary offering college grantsMar 13, 2018 1:00 am - The Rotary Club of Buffalo Grove is again offering one-time grants of up to $2,000 to assist graduates of Buffalo Grove and Stevenson high schools with college expenses....
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Mount Prospect teacher wants students to stay curiousMar 12, 2018 5:00 am - Asking questions is best way to learn, according to Mount Prospect social studies teacher
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Social studies teacher wants kids to think like historiansMar 12, 2018 5:00 am - Grant Montgomery has spent 10 years teaching social studies to eighth-graders in St. Charles School District 303. He is in his first year teaching at Thompson Middle Sch...
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Highland social studies teacher wants to empower studentsMar 12, 2018 5:00 am - Highland Middle School seventh-grade social studies teacher Marshall Sheffer says he loves empowering kids to see the ways they can directly and indirectly influence the...
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District 303 approves repurposing Fox Ridge, changing boundariesMar 12, 2018 1:00 am - School board votes to realign boundaries, relocate as many as 600 students
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U-46 board seeks plan to address inequities in student disciplineMar 12, 2018 1:00 am - Elgin Area School District U-46 officials acknowledged they aren't doing enough to address racial inequities with the overrepresentation of black students in referrals f...
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Parents of special needs U-46 graduates organizing own promMar 12, 2018 1:00 am - For years, South Elgin High School graduate Natalie Herrera has attended Elgin Area School District U-46's prom for students and alumni of its special education and tran...
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Pizza throwdown benefits studentsMar 12, 2018 1:00 am - The second annual Mundelein Pizza Throwdown, a fundraiser for the Mundelein District 75 STEAM Foundation, will be 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 15, at Carl Sandburg ...