Articles filed under Elgin Area Unit District 46
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U-46 teacher who recovered from in-school stabbing laid offMar 15, 2010 11:00 pm - Carolyn Gilbert isn't the type to make waves. After she was attacked by a 16-year-old student with a knife in January 2008, she lost her right eye, endured several surge...
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Naperville career center braces itself for suddenly unemployed teachersMar 13, 2010 10:00 pm - Naperville's Community Career Center has helped a lot of people with their job searches in recent years, but very few of them have been educators. Now, center officials ...
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State schools' money woes may mean students will find better dealsMar 13, 2010 10:00 pm - For as long as she can remember, Frankie Tiberio of Algonquin has known two things: She wants to be a veterinarian and she wants to go to the University of Illinois. Alo...
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U-46's Torres talks staff cutsMar 12, 2010 10:00 pm - As part of more than $31 million in cuts from next year's budget, hundreds of Elgin Area School District U-46 staff members learned Friday they'll be losing their jobs a...
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Sheridan sixth-grader named a safety 'patroller of the year'Mar 11, 2010 10:00 pm - Sheridan Elementary School officials have announced that sixth-grader Jennifer Lascon has been named one of AAA's Patrollers of the Year. The national award is given to ...
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U-46 bias suit moving closer to trialMar 10, 2010 10:00 pm - At their first court appearance in nearly two months, parties in the Elgin Area School District U-46 racial bias lawsuit informed a federal judge that it's fairly smooth...
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Schools superintendents riding the fence on income tax increaseMar 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Throwing support behind an income tax increase is a political hot potato for local legislators. It's also one for school superintendents, who, across the suburbs, have s...
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U-46 not shy about fighting state education cutsMar 09, 2010 10:00 pm - Elgin Area School District U-46 is using its school marquees to make an 11th-hour appeal to Gov. Pat Quinn. With Quinn expected to announce a $1.4 billion decrease in ed...
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Letting parents save school programsMar 08, 2010 10:00 pm - School boards are taking it on the chin these days, with meeting after meeting in which irate parents and sincere students beg that their favorite academic or extracurri...
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Fighting back against the tide of school budget cutsMar 07, 2010 10:00 pm - Second of two parts Brad Hawk has a bird's-eye view of what he calls "a perfect financial storm." The former superintendent of Central Unit District 301 in western Kane ...