Kerry Lester
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Luther North announces buyer, plans to ramp up academicsMay 12, 2010 11:00 pm - Luther High School North formally announced Thursday it has been spared from foreclosure. Chicago's New Life Church has purchased the school building, which Luther plans...
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Budget concerns lead U-46 to delay border changesMay 11, 2010 11:00 pm - Budget cuts have pushed boundary changes in Elgin Area School District U-46 back at least a year, members of the district's Citizens Advisory Council learned Tuesday nig...
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U.S. adviser gets an earful on test scores at U-46 meetingMay 10, 2010 11:00 pm - Jo Anderson got an earful Monday to take back to Washington. The senior adviser to U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan was among the two dozen teachers, community le...
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Expert: ECC out in front of college readiness initiativesMay 09, 2010 11:00 pm - A nationally renowned higher education expert says Elgin Community College's Alliance for College Readiness is out in front of the pack on a newly hot topic. "There are...
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U-46, union reach tentative agreementMay 08, 2010 11:00 pm - Elgin Area School District U-46 and its 2,700 member teachers had expressed hopes for an expedited contract bargaining process. Those wishes were fulfilled Saturday, as ...
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U-46, teachers union head into extended bargaining session SaturdayMay 07, 2010 11:00 pm - Bargaining teams representing Elgin Area School District U-46 and its 2,700-member teachers union were unable to reach a tentative agreement in the five originally sched...
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U-46 names five new principalsMay 06, 2010 11:00 pm - Elgin Area School District U-46 officials this week named five new elementary school principals. Karen Mink, currently an elementary principal in DeKalb School District ...
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U-46 summer school changes leave some parents peevedMay 05, 2010 11:00 pm - Four years after being adopted from a Russian orphanage, Joey and Will Zubinski are beginning to catch up to their peers academically. The boys, who attend first and sec...
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Judge spikes families' second try at settlement conference in U-46 suitMay 04, 2010 11:00 pm - A federal judge has spiked the Elgin families' retry at a settlement conference in the Elgin Area School District U-46 racial bias suit, even before school board members...
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New District U-46 student trustee sworn inMay 04, 2010 11:00 pm - Elgin Area School District U-46's second-ever student board member was sworn in Monday night. Nasir Almasri, of Streamwood, was chosen by the members of Superintendent J...