Education
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Batavia students building greenhouse from pop bottlesNov 02, 2015 4:42 am - Two classes at Batavia High School are looking to turn your trash into their treasure. They want 1,500 empty 2-liter soda and water bottles to build a greenhouse. The wo...
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Feds find Dist. 211 transgender policy discriminatoryNov 02, 2015 12:00 am - Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 is violating the anti-discriminatory Title IX law by denying a transgender student who identifies as female unrestricted acc...
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CLC boosting help for athletesNov 02, 2015 12:00 am - To support student athletes' academic performance and help in sports team recruiting, the College of Lake County board has approved increasing tuition waivers for them. ...
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New archdiocese schools chief focusing on enrollment, Catholic missionNov 02, 2015 12:00 am - In his tenure as superintendent of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati's schools, Jim Rigg earned a reputation as an efficiency guy. Rigg stepped into a Cincinnati parochial s...
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Editorial: Stevenson's move to later start time a local test caseNov 01, 2015 10:00 pm - The toughest part about change often is finding someone to be first. On the issue of pushing school start times back later in the morning to be more in line with identif...
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Grayslake District 46 trying to tighten travel expense policyOct 31, 2015 7:29 am - Grayslake Elementary District 46 board members are exploring tighter guidelines for expense reimbursement when traveling for business. School board President Steven Stra...
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Nontenured faculty at University of Chicago files to unionize
Oct 31, 2015 1:00 am - Nontenure-track faculty at the University of Chicago have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to unionize, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned. They a...
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Editorial: Let's not kid ourselves about what Illinois school report cards sayOct 30, 2015 11:00 pm - It is difficult to draw any sort of detailed conclusions from the latest release of the state school report cards. The results so far are so fragmented that it's hard to...
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Suburban superintendents to vent to state leader about new testOct 30, 2015 5:44 am - About 20 suburban high school superintendents are meeting Monday with State Superintendent of Education Tony Smith to vent their frustrations about poor performance resu...
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Incomplete state test results frustrate suburban schoolsOct 30, 2015 5:30 am - Mountains of demographic data, ACT scores and a new way to mark math competence among schoolchildren throughout Illinois are among highlights of the Illinois Report Card...