Education
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Chicago teachers inch closer to a strikeAug 22, 2012 3:37 pm - Teachers picketed outside a district office Wednesday in the shadow of a giant inflatable rat as school board members inside authorized spending $25 million in the event...
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District 103 foundation hosts Aug. 25 fundraiser to benefit science initiativeAug 22, 2012 2:41 pm - Lincolnshire Prairie View Elementary District 103’s Learning Fund Foundation host its Strikes for Science FUNdraiser, Saturday, Aug. 25, at eSkape in Buffalo Grove. This...
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McMahon plans to broaden scope of anti-bullying programAug 21, 2012 11:09 pm - The Kane County state’s attorney’s office has been giving presentations on bullying for the past two years at the request of school liaison officers. Prosecutors plan to...
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Demographer: U-46 boundary changes were needed to stem overcrowding, account for new schoolsAug 21, 2012 6:52 pm - A demographer who analyzed student placement plans and enrollment projections in Elgin Area School District U-46 said the 2004-2005 boundary changes at the center of a f...
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New law lowers age for pharmacist-administered vaccinationsAug 21, 2012 4:53 pm - Illinois children as young as 10 years old can get vaccinated at pharmacies under an Illinois law signed Tuesday that lowers the age limit. Previously, the law allowed ...
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College Illinois tuition program to resume Oct. 1Aug 21, 2012 4:53 pm - The state’s College Illinois prepaid tuition program will soon be back in business. The Illinois Student Assistance Commission voted last week to reopen College Illinois...
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Technology exec cites passion for education in appointment to District 125 boardAug 21, 2012 4:17 pm - A self-described “business and technology junkie” has been named to fill a vacancy on the District 125 school board, which governs Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire....
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William Hill Brown wrote the first American novelAug 21, 2012 2:28 pm - You wanted to know “Who was the first American to write a novel?” asked students in Jen Janik’s third grade class at Big Hollow Elementary School in Ingleside. By Hope B...
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Young immigrants may find college elusiveAug 21, 2012 1:28 pm - MIAMI — Araceli Cortes had made up her mind: After being brought to the U.S. as a child, graduating from high school and attending some college in California, she was go...
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Volunteers transform courtyard at Fairhaven SchoolAug 21, 2012 12:43 pm - Dozens of volunteers recently joined forces to give the courtyard at Fairhaven School in Mundelein a much needed facelift. About 30 volunteers weeded, installed landscap...