Education
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Central High School opens new facilities for school yearAug 24, 2017 1:00 am - Burlington Central Unit District 301 debuted new facilities this week, including a renovated library, new classrooms and modern weight training and cardio fitness areas ...
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Mentors, volunteers sought for career program at Dundee-CrownAug 24, 2017 1:00 am - Interested community members, business leaders, and entrepreneurs are sought to help guide and mentor students in Dundee-Crown High School's INCubatoredu program. Now in...
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Harper makes $1 million challenge for 'Promise' scholarshipsAug 23, 2017 1:00 am - Harper College is dangling a maximum of $1 million as a challenge to a private foundation raising money for a program offering free tuition to qualifying high school stu...
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Students return to new administrators, facilities at Kane, McHenry schoolsAug 23, 2017 1:00 am - Thousands of students returned Wednesday for the first day of classes at several school districts in the Fox Valley. Classes resumed in Burlington Central School Distric...
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DuPage Airport event helps students fly into the school yearAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - For several glorious minutes on Tuesday, Gracie Perry got to imagine what it would be like to be a pilot. The 9-year-old West Chicago girl had a wide smile on her face s...
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U-46's fine arts coordinator leaving districtAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - Elgin Area School District U-46's fine arts coordinator Alicia Kopec is leaving the district barely a week after classes started for the new school year. In an email to ...
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Des Plaines Elementary District 62 kicks off first day of schoolAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - Community leaders attended a celebration of the first day of school in Des Plaines Elementary District 62 to greet students as they entered North Elementary School on Mo...
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Indoors or out, schools make most of eclipse experienceAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - Melissa Sabatino, principal of Willow Bend School in Rolling Meadows, feared a backlash when she announced that an outdoor eclipse viewing was canceled because the viewi...
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MCC offers Project Management Professional certification seriesAug 22, 2017 1:00 am - CRYSTAL LAKE - McHenry County College offering a Project Management Professional Certification Preparation Series from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Tuesdays from Sept. 12 through...
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Madigan cancels school funding override vote 'in light of progress'
Aug 22, 2017 1:00 am - SPRINGFIELD - Illinois House Speaker Mike Madigan canceled a Wednesday House session - and a planned override of Gov. Bruce Rauner's veto of a school funding measure - "...