Education
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114-mile round trip, $125 hotel bill. District 50 school board's travel tab tops $34,000 since 2017.Oct 10, 2018 5:00 am - A 114-mile round trip drive from her Gurnee home to a workshop in Naperville June 9 was too much for a longtime Woodland Elementary District 50 school board member. So s...
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Barrington High to debut larger HD video board at final football gameOct 10, 2018 1:00 am - Barrington High School's last regular season home football game is expected to feature the debut of a new high-definition video board more than three times larger than t...
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How you can help Round Lake teacher vying for 100K grantOct 10, 2018 1:00 am - Allison Nelson, a special-education teacher at Ellis Elementary School, is vying for a $100,000 grant to build a new accessible playground at the Round Lake school. She'...
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Harper College president calls on business community to partner with educationOct 09, 2018 1:00 am - In his 10th and final year as president of Harper College in Palatine, Ken Ender called on Schaumburg Business Association members to help him carry on the work of savin...
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Indian Hill teacher praised for pushing positive practicesOct 08, 2018 6:00 am - Teresa Steinhagen, a third-grade teacher at Indian Hill Elementary School, has been instrumental in getting a new education app to the school and helping fellow teachers...
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Metea Valley High student journalists move on from censorship debateOct 08, 2018 5:30 am - Two student journalists at Metea Valley High School in Aurora say their work was censored when administrators prevented them from airing a broadcast story about a new re...
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Old Crow Medicine Show founder sings, speaks to kids in AuroraOct 08, 2018 1:00 am - A writer and musician known for staging his folk talents with the band Old Crow Medicine Show found a younger audience than usual when he visited an Aurora elementary sc...
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We should worry most about student borrowers who owe the leastOct 07, 2018 1:00 am - Stories about student loan borrowers with six-figure debt loads might shock us, intrigue us or appeal to our deep-seated sense of financial schadenfreude. But borrowers ...
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Burlington Central High becomes a regional hub for veterinary science educationOct 06, 2018 1:00 am - Editor’s note: Suburban Education Lab is an occasional series focusing on innovative programs at suburban schools, colleges and universities, often tackling common, ...
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New member appointed to East Maine School District 63 boardOct 05, 2018 1:00 am - The East Maine School District 63 board Thursday appointed Morton Grove resident Katie Anderson to fill the seat left vacant when former member Angelo Scarsella stepped ...