Articles filed under Education
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Barrington High start time to remain 7:20 a.m.Apr 20, 2016 5:02 am - Despite an effort to change the start time at Barrington High from 7:20 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. next year, the Barrington Area Unit School District 220 board decided Tuesday t...
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Coffee cart part of District 214 'life' program for special ed studentsApr 20, 2016 1:00 am - Jaylisha Vega Navarro, a Hersey High School senior from Elk Grove Village, is not quite a barista yet, but she is learning the tricks of the trade during her daily shift...
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Despite higher cost, Barrington school renovation approvedApr 20, 2016 1:00 am - Despite a higher-than-expected price tag, the Barrington Area Unit School District 220 board voted Tuesday to approve a $1.3 million renovation to Hough Elementary Schoo...
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Stevenson High leads suburban schools on U.S. News rankingsApr 20, 2016 1:00 am - Lincolnshire's Stevenson High School has again been named the top open-enrollment high school in Illinois, according to the latest high school rankings by U.S. News and ...
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First-generation students find open doors at community collegesApr 19, 2016 11:00 pm - First-generation college students are in many ways the core of community colleges, which were originally designed to provide equal access to higher education. Serving t...
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House OKs plan calling on community colleges to make classes free for high school studentsApr 19, 2016 1:00 am - House lawmakers unanimously passed a proposal Tuesday calling on community colleges to make courses available to high school students for free. Sponsored by state Rep. ...
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Dueling proposals trying to keep state universities open in the fallApr 19, 2016 1:00 am - A suburban Republican lawmaker wants to send Illinois universities four months worth of state funding to try to ensure they open their doors for the next school year. ...
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Efficient Showerheads Idea Wins "Come Clean, Go Green" 2016 AwardsApr 19, 2016 1:00 am - ROMEOVILLE- Ideas for more efficient showerheads, drip irrigation systems and sensitive sprinklers won awards in the Come Clean, Go Green 2016 Event sponsored by Lewis U...
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All Wauconda High freshmen to get Chromebooks in fallApr 19, 2016 1:00 am - All incoming freshmen at Wauconda High School will be assigned district-owned computers for use in and out of classrooms under a program set to rollout this fall. It's t...
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National Merit Scholarship winners announcedApr 18, 2016 11:00 pm - National Merit Scholarship Corporation recently released the names of the first group of winners in the 61st annual National Merit Scholarship Program. More than 1,000 di...