Articles filed under Dundee Area Unit District 300
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District 300 sees good news in college readiness dataAug 27, 2013 5:32 pm - More students than ever are taking Advanced Placement classes in Community Unit District 300. And more of them than ever are passing the exams. When it comes to the ACT...
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District 300 praised for smaller class sizes this yearAug 27, 2013 5:30 am - Last year when Community Unit District 300 teachers walked the picket line, advocating for change during contract negotiations, they chanted about how their working cond...
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Some locals still fighting Common CoreAug 18, 2013 8:03 am - The new Common Core State Standards for reading and math are not without their critics. Erin Raasch, a Villa Park mom, runs the website StopCommonCoreIL.org. She aggrega...
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New curriculum standards change suburban classroomsAug 18, 2013 8:00 am - Times are changing, and classrooms are changing along with them. For this year’s start of the eighth-grade math class Evan Borkowski teaches at Algonquin Middle School,...
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District 300 getting unexpected $4.4 million from the state?Aug 13, 2013 5:30 am - Community Unit District 300 school board members got some good news Monday night before approving a tentative 2013-14 budget. The Carpentersville-based district will ge...
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Dundee-Crown special education teacher stresses literacyAug 12, 2013 5:00 am - Schools teach children to read until third grade, when their education shifts. Lessons about the mechanics of reading fall to the wayside as textbooks are introduced and...
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State: Pingree Grove charter school must clarify feesJul 31, 2013 4:00 pm - State officials have told Pingree Grove charter school leaders to make clear the membership fees they outline in an agreement with parents are voluntary. If the fees wer...
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Dist. 300 board approves sale of Oak Ridge propertyJul 31, 2013 3:28 pm - Community Unit District 300 has a buyer for the Oak Ridge School property but won’t move students to a new location until the summer of 2015. “That is to allow the boar...
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Hampshire Park District seeks new directorJul 30, 2013 5:04 pm - Bob Whitehouse, Hampshire Park District’s longtime executive director, has announced his retirement and a search is under way for his replacement. Whitehouse, 62, will ...
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Dist. 300 looks for ways to offset taxpayers’ cost of Sears breaksJul 30, 2013 3:18 pm - Officials consider restructuring debt to offset cost of Sears tax breaks