Education
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District 64 board to meet Thursday to discuss $26 million borrowing planOct 20, 2021 1:00 am - The Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 board will meet Thursday night to host a public hearing about a plan to borrow about $26 million to remodel the district's elemen...
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Barone: The troubling legacy of de Blasio's destructionOct 19, 2021 1:00 am - By Michael Barone As his two terms as New York's mayor approach their end, and long after his presidential campaign ended with a whimper, Bill de Blasio has chimed in wi...
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Behind the curtain: How much focus should a loud protest get?Oct 18, 2021 12:00 am - How may biases have come into play with some of the news we've covered over the past year? We on our Objectivity Council looked at how we covered schools and the pandemi...
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Waubonsee helps students 'thrive locally, transfer easily'Oct 17, 2021 11:00 pm - Nationally, community colleges have a uniquely different mission than other types of institutions of higher learning. By providing an affordable and quality education t...
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The end of student loan forbearance will be tougher on women
Oct 17, 2021 6:00 am - Before the pandemic, wage disparities already made it tougher for working women to pay off student loans than men. Now, after a second year of juggling increased caregiv...
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How suburban school districts are scrambling after pandemic exacerbated teacher shortageOct 16, 2021 1:00 am - School districts struggling with the long-term effects of COVID-19 have an urgent problem to tackle: a shortage of teachers and substitute teachers exacerbated by the pa...
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How a Latina student found support at Waubonsee to break the cycle and work toward her goalsOct 15, 2021 6:00 am - According to a 2019 report by Excelencia in Education's Latinos in Higher Education: Compilation of Fast Facts, half of all Latinos in the U.S. (44%) were the first in t...
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Dominican University's focus on student success recognized by U.S. News & World ReportOct 14, 2021 1:00 am - Dominican University was pleased to learn earlier this month that U. S. News & World Report again ranked the university No. 10 out of nearly 160 schools in the Midwest. ...
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Producing profits: MCC to offer farm-business workshops in OctoberOct 12, 2021 11:00 pm - McHenry County College will offer two programs geared toward the food and farming community this October. Hosted by the college's Center for Agrarian Learning, the sess...
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Young Rembrandts artist Bill Duca painting storm drains around ElginOct 12, 2021 11:00 pm - Bill Duca, artist and cartoonist for Young Rembrandts, is spending his days painting storm drains in the city of Elgin, for a project called "New Call for Art," by the E...