Articles filed under Education
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South Elgin H.S. auto club 7th in national competitionNov 24, 2015 12:00 am - The South Elgin High School Auto Club earned seventh place at the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge earlier this month in Las Vegas. The U-46 team took apart and...
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Former Barrington principal named new superintendent in District 102Nov 24, 2015 12:00 am - A former Barrington school principal and current administrator in the Lake Forest school system has been named the next superintendent of Buffalo Grove-based Aptakisic-T...
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A new approach to parent-teacher conferences in GlenbardNov 23, 2015 10:00 pm - We recently completed our first semester parent-teacher conferences and this year we added a new feature - student interpreters for parents who only spoke Spanish. Thr...
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Dist. 33 awarded $2.2 million to help neediest familiesNov 23, 2015 4:40 am - Some of West Chicago Elementary District 33's youngest and neediest students will benefit from a $2.2 million, five-year grant recently awarded by the U.S. Department of...
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Northwest suburban special ed superintendent named best in stateNov 23, 2015 12:00 am - Judy Hackett, superintendent of the Northwest Suburban Special Education Organization, has been named Superintendent of the Year by the Illinois Association of School Ad...
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20,000 students opt out of controversial state test, group saysNov 23, 2015 12:00 am - A watchdog group claims more than 20,000 students in Illinois opted out of taking the state's new — and controversial — standardized test earlier this year. The Chicago-...
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Puffy helmets make life safer for young athletesNov 22, 2015 6:00 am - The news, as I recall it, didn't create stop-and-take-notice headlines throughout Illinois. State legislators this summer made it law that virtually all schools where sp...
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Lake Zurich Dist. 95 art festivalNov 22, 2015 12:00 am - Lake Zurich Unit District 95 will host its second annual art festival Tuesday, Dec. 1. Free to attend, the event will be from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Lake Zurich High School ...
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Glenbard Dist. 87, West Aurora could save on big building projectsNov 21, 2015 6:45 am - Taxpayers in West Aurora District 129 and Glenbard High School District 87 might end up paying less for money borrowed for school construction as a result of a state boa...
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In Dist. 211, first came the iPads, then came the restrictionsNov 20, 2015 7:00 am - Editor's note: This article was written by Aditi Katwala and Dhvanii Raval for the Conant High School newspaper, The Crier. The graphic is by Melania Toczko. Used with p...