Education
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U of I promotes dean to provostMay 11, 2012 5:17 pm - URBANA, Ill. — The University of Illinois has chosen the dean of its College of Engineering to take over as provost at the school’s flagship campus. Urbana-Champaign cam...
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D50 band sign-up meetingsMay 10, 2012 6:58 pm - The fifth grade beginning band mandatory signup meetings have been scheduled in May and August at Intermediate School, 1115 N. Hunt Club Road, Gurnee. The meetings are s...
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Teachers, staff to be recognized in ceremony in St. CharlesMay 10, 2012 4:05 pm - The Kane County Regional Office of Education will bestow its annual awards Friday night at Pheasant Run’s Mega Center in St. Charles. Awards are given to elementary, mid...
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Area schools ranked among best in state, nation by U.S. News & World ReportMay 10, 2012 12:00 pm - Several suburban high schools were recognized as being among the best in Illinois and across the nation in recent rankings by U.S. News & World Report. Topping the list...
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Report: Eighth-grade students still lag in scienceMay 10, 2012 10:00 am - ATLANTA — Eighth-graders in the U.S. are doing better in science than they were two years ago, but seven out of 10 still are not considered proficient, the federal gover...
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Chick hatching a tradition at Mundelein's FairhavenMay 10, 2012 8:00 am - It's been chick-hatching time in four first-grade classrooms at Fairhaven School in Mundelein, with the most recent batch of little ones recently breaking through their ...
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Pension funding debate plays into old city-suburb divisionsMay 10, 2012 5:30 am - SPRINGFIELD — For decades, reformers tried to raise income taxes and send more money from the state's wealthier taxpayers to Illinois' poorer schools to put education fu...
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COD board votes to impose contract on facultyMay 10, 2012 12:01 am - Board imposes contract on faculty
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Bartlett High student bakes cakes like a Food Network proMay 09, 2012 11:00 pm - Look - it's a chef's hat on top of a cutting board sitting on a pot placed on a briefcase. Wait, it's a cake! But ... is the knife real? It's easy to imagine that's w...
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400 attend Schaumburg meeting on teacher pensionsMay 09, 2012 9:00 pm - Current and retired teachers are very angry about threats to their retirement benefits, but the way most of them expressed themselves Wednesday at a meeting with officia...