Articles filed under Dundee Area Unit District 300
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Deadline looming for service award nominationsOct 02, 2013 11:25 am - West Dundee, in conjunction with the Northern Kane County Chamber of Commerce, is trying to recognize volunteers by creating the West Dundee Community Service Award. You...
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Geneva’s Laura Crawford remembered fondly in Dist. 300Oct 01, 2013 9:59 am - Laura Crawford was passionate about reading, writing and sharing her love for those subjects with students at Sleepy Hollow Elementary School, where she spent 20 years t...
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Some schools let kids, parents anonymously report bullying onlineSep 30, 2013 4:30 am - Online forms that allow students and parents to report bullying are helping officials at some suburban schools deal with a problem that's been in the national spotlight....
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Fire damages popular Carpentersville pizzeriaSep 19, 2013 4:00 pm - Curt Lavender was finalizing a charity motorcycle ride that was supposed to end at Village Pizza & Pub in Carpentersville, where riders could stop and have dinner. Now t...
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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...