Education
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Mayor: All of Chicago to help with ‘safe passage’Aug 21, 2013 5:39 pm - Workers hired to help kids get to and from school safely will be “on the front lines” when Chicago Public Schools begin classes. But Mayor Rahm Emanuel said they won’t ...
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Reading tutors sought:Aug 21, 2013 5:10 pm - United Way of Lake County is seeking volunteers as reading tutors in Waukegan classrooms. Fifty-seven percent of third graders in Waukegan can’t read at grade level. Tra...
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2 hit by blowgun darts at U of IAug 21, 2013 3:52 pm - CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Champaign police say two people have been shot with blowgun darts as they walked at the University of Illinois campus this week. Police said Wednesday ...
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No device found after ISU bomb threatAug 21, 2013 3:51 pm - NORMAL, Ill. — Illinois State University President Timothy J. Flanagan says nothing suspicious has been found a day after a handwritten bomb threat was discovered in a b...
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Elgin middle school safely evacuated after gas leakAug 21, 2013 11:00 am - Students were evacuated for a few hours on Wednesday from Abbott Middle School in Elgin after a road construction crew caused a gas leak, Elgin police said. The leak was...
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ACT: Third of high school grads not college readyAug 21, 2013 7:54 am - WASHINGTON — Almost a third of this year’s high school graduates who took the ACT tests are not prepared for college-level writing, biology, algebra or social science cl...
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No new contract yet for District 25 teachersAug 21, 2013 5:30 am - Classes resume Thursday in Arlington Heights Elementary District 25, but the district's teachers will start the year without a contract. The district and the Arlington T...
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ACT scores dip in Illinois as more tests are countedAug 21, 2013 5:30 am - Illinois is one of only nine states that require 11th-graders to take the ACT exam, and in 2013, the average score for the state's students ranked near the top. Utah ha...
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Illinois slow to implement new teacher grading systemAug 20, 2013 6:14 pm - SPRINGFIELD — Illinois’ slow implementation of an evaluation program aimed at grading teachers partly on whether their students’ test scores are improving is creating pr...
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Tips for taking kids out of school to travelAug 20, 2013 2:00 pm - Those of us who travel with kids know that travel is an educational experience. And family travel gets much more affordable after Labor Day, once kids are back in the cl...