Education
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Veteran educator says farewell to Grayslake District 46Aug 09, 2012 10:31 am - M. Lynn Barkley bid farewell this week to Grayslake Elementary District 46, where the educator donned several hats in her long career. Along with her job as principal of...
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Streamwood grad credits leadership program with successAug 09, 2012 8:00 am - Susan Lopez was accepted to the Youth Leadership Academy at Elgin Community College when she was in sixth grade. She started the program at the beginning of her seventh...
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Round Lake High finds new principalAug 08, 2012 2:05 pm - Juan H. Gardner has been hired to lead Round Lake High School, replacing a principal who resigned three weeks before the new academic year begins. Round Lake Area Unit D...
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Huntley welcomes back talented performersAug 07, 2012 2:55 pm - Rarely do performers entertain residents of Sun City in Huntley twice in the same year. But the members of Project Two, a group of high school students who perform Broad...
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Parents: Add vaccines to your back-to-school listAug 07, 2012 11:35 am - Parents, it’s almost time to send your children back to school. Between buying new clothes, shopping for every last supply and enjoying the last few weeks of summer, re...
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U-46 fills 3 key administrative rolesAug 07, 2012 10:00 am - Elgin Area School District U-46 has made a number of changes in its administrative ranks, filling the positions of director of school and community relations, director o...
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College dorms must have sprinklers by 2014Aug 06, 2012 4:42 pm - Legislation requiring all college dorms to have sprinklers installed by 2014 is one of four new fire safety bills Gov. Pat Quinn has signed into law. The bill beefs up p...
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D303 school board member starts push for more homeworkAug 06, 2012 4:14 pm - St. Charles Unit District 303 will start the school year with a close look at how much homework students have on an average school night. At least one school board membe...
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Task force to transform school day in U-46Aug 03, 2012 4:02 pm - If you ask students, teachers, administrators and parents what the ideal school day looks like in Elgin Area School District U-46 looks like, you’ll get at least four di...
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Palatine’s Countryside completes expansion, renovationAug 03, 2012 12:22 pm - Supporters of the Countryside Association for People with Disabilities decided they couldn’t stand idly by as a waiting list grew of people hoping to access services. So...