Education
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Fixed rates are latest in college tuition plansDec 25, 2013 5:15 am - MILWAUKEE — Freshmen at Wisconsin’s Northland College will pay no more than $30,450 in tuition next year. They’ll pay the same the following year. And the year after tha...
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Agency overrules Chicago district on charter schoolsDec 23, 2013 3:13 pm - A relatively unknown state agency has overruled Chicago Public Schools and ordered the district to approve and fund two new charter schools run by a group supported by I...
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N. Aurora teacher wins top award in agricultureDec 22, 2013 7:00 am - Cathy Britts-Axen isn't the type to take all of the credit for herself. So when she recently found out Illinois Agriculture in the Classroom named her its 2014 Teacher ...
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Schools seeing more diversity than communities they serveDec 22, 2013 4:30 am - With each passing year, minorities have become the majority group in more suburban school districts. School systems based in Palatine, Gurnee, Vernon Hills and Carol Str...
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Algonquin teacher wins award from ObamaDec 21, 2013 4:00 pm - Algonquin teacher Lisa Feltman, one of 102 recipients nationally of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, says her absolute passion ...
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Hawthorn IMRF contributionDec 20, 2013 2:46 pm - Hawthorn Elementary District 73 will make a $500,000 payment to the Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund in an effort to reduce its $4 million unfunded liability to the re...
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Lombard students, senior citizens make blankets for hospice patientsDec 20, 2013 11:24 am - Students from Trinity Lutheran School in Lombard recently had a chance to work with senior citizens to make blankets for hospice residents at Lexington Health Center. Th...
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Indiana education board releasing ‘A-F’ school gradesDec 20, 2013 6:05 am - INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana’s State Board of Education is set to release “A-F” school grades for the 2012-13 school year four months after a grade change scandal sparked a re...
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Lake Zurich District 95 gets air conditioning estimatesDec 20, 2013 4:30 am - Cost to cool five schools could reach $25 million
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Lake Villa Elementary District 41 names Lynette Zimmer its new superintendentDec 19, 2013 10:43 am - The next superintendent for Lake Villa Elementary District 41 will begin transitioning into that role Jan. 1, officials announced. Lynette Zimmer, now the superintendent...