Articles filed under Education
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A personal tutor, just a mouse click awayAug 29, 2015 7:00 am - Imagine if your teacher knew that you learned math best between 8:40 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. Or that after 38 minutes of studying history, you lose focus. Or that you learn s...
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State of the Suburbs: Changing standards, tests transform schoolsAug 29, 2015 6:00 am - Public education in Illinois has undergone a significant transformation in the past decade with the overhaul of state standards, assessments and how teachers and student...
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Batavia school budget forecasts spending 2.7 percent moreAug 29, 2015 1:00 am - The Batavia school district has plans to spend about $87.68 million in fiscal year 2015-16, about 2.7 percent more than was budgeted for the previous year. Of that, $9.8...
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Geneva school superintendent's contract extendedAug 28, 2015 1:00 am - The Geneva School District 304 board has again extended the contract of Superintendent Kent Mutchler. The board voted 5-1 Monday to lengthen it a year, to June 30, 2019....
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Thumbs-up for condition of Distrct 95 buildingsAug 28, 2015 1:00 am - While roof repairs and other work likely are in the future at some Lake Zurich Unit District 95 schools, an architect who performed a review said the structures are in g...
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New Woodland Intermediate administratorAug 28, 2015 1:00 am - Robyn Klipp has become special education supervisor and assistant principal for Woodland Intermediate School in Gurnee. "I am thoroughly excited to begin working with th...
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Ives wants COD building named for Medal of Honor recipientAug 28, 2015 1:00 am - With College of DuPage trustees trying to fire President Robert Breuder, one state lawmaker is imploring them to prevent the school's Homeland Security Education Center ...
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Stevenson High aiming for new world recordAug 28, 2015 1:00 am - Those wacky do-gooders at Stevenson High School are at it again, raising money for charity through their annual Spirit Fest while simultaneously trying to get into the G...
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Retired teachers to meetAug 28, 2015 1:00 am - The Lake County Retired Teachers Association will meet at noon on Tuesday, Sept. 8, at Lambs Farm restaurant at Route 176 and I-94, near Libertyville. The cost is $16 pe...
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Still no contract deal in Prospect Heights District 23Aug 28, 2015 1:00 am - Negotiations between the Prospect Heights Elementary District 23 school board and its teachers continued Friday night in the wake of a strike vote taken by the union thi...