Education
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ECC could lose $5.6 million due to state budget crisisDec 18, 2015 12:00 am - Elgin Community College could lose $5.6 million in state funding due to the state's budget impasse, officials said this week. College administrators say they are taking ...
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Residents' complaints lead to lower tax levy in District 36Dec 18, 2015 12:00 am - Following complaints from residents, Grass Lake Elementary District 36 officials this week voted to reduce the total taxes they'll collect from property owners in 2016. ...
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Warren High: Parents should decide if Paris, London safe for tripDec 18, 2015 12:00 am - Board members at Warren Township High School in Gurnee say they won't revoke permission for a student field trip to London and Paris in March out of terrorism concerns, ...
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Lake Park seeking new school board memberDec 17, 2015 12:00 am - The Lake Park High School board of education is seeking applications for a new member to replace Doug Denson, who served the district since April 2013 before dying unexp...
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District 211 to begin work on strategic planDec 17, 2015 12:00 am - Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 officials are preparing a new community engagement and strategic planning process that will occupy the first nine months of ...
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MCC board selects new college presidentDec 17, 2015 12:00 am - Clinton Gabbard, vice president of student services at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, Michigan, has been tapped as McHenry County College's next president. The...
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Palatine High scholarship honors donors' parentsDec 17, 2015 12:00 am - The Palatine High School Pirate Boosters organization has established the Charlotte M. and Robert C. Donahue Millennium Scholarship Fund with a $10,000 donation in the c...
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State: Nearly half need remediation when they start community collegeDec 17, 2015 12:00 am - State education officials say nearly half of Illinois high school graduates enrolled in state community colleges require remediation. New postsecondary remediation data ...
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Dist. 75 considers mobile classrooms for Washington schoolDec 17, 2015 12:00 am - Mobile classrooms are the preferred method to solve space issues at the Washington Early Learning Center in Mundelein, officials say. "The (school) board has been studyi...
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Fremont students dissect squidsDec 17, 2015 12:00 am - Screeching and squealing filled the room as Fremont Intermediate School students dissected squid as part of an animal kingdom science unit on vertebrates and invertebrat...