Articles filed under Education
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Durbin: ECC a model for student loan reformJan 11, 2013 2:00 pm - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said Friday many colleges commit acts of “negligence” compared to Elgin Community College when it comes to educating students about how to keep the...
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Former Lake Villa school board member critical of Grayslake District 46 officialsJan 10, 2013 4:23 pm - Grayslake Elementary District 46’s elected officials have been scolded by a former school board member who served in the Lake Villa area. Sean Carney voiced his less-tha...
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District 200 to seek voter approval for new early childhood centerJan 10, 2013 3:20 pm - Wheaton Warrenville Unit District 200 will seek voters’ permission in April to raise taxes and issue $17.6 million in bonds to finance construction of a new Jefferson Ea...
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LHS band director on paid leave, but officials won't say whyJan 10, 2013 3:00 pm - Libertyville High School band director Jeffrey T. Daeschler has been on paid administrative leave since November, District 128 officials have confirmed. But district off...
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Oak Brook’s Butler District 53 names new superintendentJan 10, 2013 12:04 pm - A longtime North suburban school administrator, Heidi Wennstrom, has been named superintendent of Oak Brook’s Butler Elementary District 53. She will assume her new duti...
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Elmhurst College joins University Center of Lake CountyJan 10, 2013 10:32 am - Elmhurst College became a member of the University Center of Lake County in action taken by the Center’s Governing Board at its Dec. 5, 2012 meeting. Elmhurst has joine...
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Grant gives Dist. 300 access to new instrumentsJan 10, 2013 4:31 am - When Carpentersville Middle School band director Michael Kasper ran across “Blue and Green Music,” an arrangement for middle school concert bands based on Georgia O’Keef...
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No deal, but no strike date in West Chicago District 33Jan 09, 2013 8:00 pm - Both sides say they've made new offers but they're not close to agreeing
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Astronaut urges Barrington students to aim for starsJan 09, 2013 9:00 am - The space shuttle may be gone, but American children need not give up their dreams of becoming astronauts. That was the message Shannon Walker of NASA shared Wednesday m...
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ECC program helped women become weldersJan 09, 2013 4:15 am - When Juana Rodriguez sat down in her first welding class at Elgin Community College in January 2011, everything started out fine. Her professor introduced himself and to...