Articles filed under Batavia Unit District 101
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Silent lunch for students at Elgin's Lowrie School has parents talkingSep 17, 2009 11:00 pm - Twenty minutes of silence has caused a lot of noise for officials at Lowrie Elementary School in Elgin. After students exhibited rowdy and disrespectful behavior in the ...
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Batavia activity budgets could take hitSep 09, 2009 11:00 pm - A projector bulb here, a Scantron test sheet there. Batavia school administrators told the school board this week how cuts the board requested in the 2009-10 budget for ...
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Tri-Cities schools won't force students to watch PresidentSep 03, 2009 11:00 pm - The furor over whether students should be shown President Barack Obama's back-to-school speech Tuesday has reached the Tri-Cities. Administrators in Geneva, St. Charles ...
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Young fans must be chaperoned at Batavia football gamesAug 27, 2009 11:00 pm - The Friday night Batavia High School football games might be the social events of the fall for local grade- and middle-schoolers. But there are a few new rules young spe...
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St. Charles ACT scores on the riseAug 18, 2009 11:00 pm - For the second year in a row, the composite ACT score in St. Charles School District 303 rose, according to figures released Wednesday by the district. Batavia's scores ...
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New student theater group to take the stage with 'Charlie Brown'Jul 23, 2009 11:00 pm - You would think that America's most lovable and insecure loser wouldn't be one for musicals, particularly being the lead singer in one. But Charlie Brown and the rest of...
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School funding cuts affect local districts differentlyJul 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Disabled and minority students, and efforts to improve reading will be hurt most in area school districts after budget cuts imposed by the Illinois State Board of Educat...
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Born to Read starts new families on way to enjoying booksMay 26, 2009 11:00 pm - The Batavia Public Library, 10 S. Batavia Ave., has launched "Born to Read," a new community program that will help educate parents and caregivers about the importance o...
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Schools are appropriately cautiousMay 03, 2009 11:00 pm - Many suburban students will be getting extra days off this week as a result of swine flu precautions. As Daily Herald staff writers Matt Arado and Robert McCoppin report...
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Swine flu will keep Batavia schools closed until end of the weekMay 02, 2009 11:00 pm - Two Batavia public schools shuttered because of the swine flu outbreak will remain closed a few days longer than originally planned, officials announced this weekend. Th...