Education
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Elgin Area Retired Teacher Association to host retired teacher luncheon Sept. 20Aug 09, 2024 10:18 pm - The Elgin Area Retired Teacher Association invites all retired teachers to a luncheon on Friday, Sept. 20, at the Elgin Country Club.
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Elgin Area School District U-46 welcomes back students Aug. 13Aug 09, 2024 1:31 pm - Classes resume Tuesday, Aug. 13, for more than 34,000 kindergartners through 12th-graders, as well as Transition students, across Elgin Area School District U-46. Preschool students will return to classrooms on Tuesday, Aug. 20.
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State now has blueprint for K-12 schools to teach dangers of overdose
Aug 09, 2024 1:17 pm - Illinois public schools wishing to teach their students about the dangers of overdoses and substance use disorder now have a blueprint to do so from the state. The Illino...
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GPS Parent Series event to present a blueprint for healthy gamingAug 08, 2024 10:49 pm - The GPS Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present “How to Raise a Healthy Gamer: Navigate Power Struggles and Build Better Screen Habits to Transform Your Relationship With Your Kid.”
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Elgin Area School District U-46 welcomes new administratorsAug 07, 2024 11:54 am - Elgin Area School District U-46 is preparing for the 2024-25 school year with new leaders stepping into top administrator roles. Some of these professionals have recently joined the district, while others have been promoted from within U-46 to serve in a new position.
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Study: Illinois students still struggle with post-pandemic learning loss
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Islamic school proposed for shuttered Elgin AcademyAug 04, 2024 2:09 pm - An organization hoping to establish an Islamic school for preschool through 12th grade students, is seeking to raise $3.7 million by the end of the month to purchase the former Elgin Academy which closed in June after 185 years.
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MCC’s new University Center brings NIU, SIU, Roosevelt and Aurora together under one roof in Woodstock
Aug 04, 2024 12:29 pm - McHenry County College’s new University Center offers students a chance to take courses and complete four-year and graduate degrees from Roosevelt University, Aurora University, Northern Illinois University or Southern Illinois University.
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‘This is harming our students’: District looks to power down on cellphones in the classroomsAug 02, 2024 10:26 pm - As concerns mount over the ill effects of social media on adolescents, schools across the country are taking another look at cellphones — and other smart devices — in the classroom. For some suburban school districts, that means new policies this year.
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For college students arrested protesting the war in Gaza, the fallout was only beginningAug 02, 2024 11:51 am - AMHERST, Mass. — Since her arrest at a protest at the University of Massachusetts, Annie McGrew has been pivoting between two sets of hearings: one for the misdemeanor ch...