Education
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D129 teachers start year with new contractAug 20, 2013 12:24 pm - West Aurora District 129 teachers will start classes Wednesday with a new contract but no overall raise in pay. The school board approved a three-year deal Monday in a 6...
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Grant High School teachers approve contractAug 20, 2013 11:35 am - Teachers at Grant Community High School in Fox Lake have approved a new contract. Lake County Federation of Teachers President Michael McGue said the Grant District 124 ...
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Toddlers to teens return to Barrington schoolsAug 20, 2013 10:00 am - All 12 campuses of Barrington Unit District 220 smoothly returned to full operation Tuesday, welcoming students from prekindergarten to those starting their senior year ...
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Suburban parents share back-to-school adviceAug 20, 2013 5:30 am - Whether kids are moving into first grade or moving away to college, families face a lot of stress during back-to-school time. And it's not only the students who have a l...
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CLC pilot ground school offered:Aug 19, 2013 4:14 pm - College of Lake County will offer an information session about a private pilot ground school that’ll start this semester. The free session on the program will be at 6 p....
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U-46 has mostly smooth start to new school yearAug 19, 2013 3:57 pm - Last week not a single student was transported by school bus in Elgin Area School District U-46. Monday, 26,000 students were taken to 53 schools. Friday not a single s...
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Classes begin at Carmel Catholic HighAug 19, 2013 11:00 am - When students at Carmel Catholic High School in Mundelein reported for the first day of classes Monday, they were greeted by a new principal. Mark Ostap, formerly an ass...
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U-46 offers up balanced budget for 2014Aug 19, 2013 4:37 am - Elgin Area School District U-46 administrators offered a balanced budget to the board of education Monday night but one that included plenty of sobering details. Proper...
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Some locals still fighting Common CoreAug 18, 2013 8:03 am - The new Common Core State Standards for reading and math are not without their critics. Erin Raasch, a Villa Park mom, runs the website StopCommonCoreIL.org. She aggrega...
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New curriculum standards change suburban classroomsAug 18, 2013 8:00 am - Times are changing, and classrooms are changing along with them. For this year’s start of the eighth-grade math class Evan Borkowski teaches at Algonquin Middle School,...