Articles filed under Elgin Area Unit District 46
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Suburban superintendents to vent to state leader about new testOct 30, 2015 5:44 am - About 20 suburban high school superintendents are meeting Monday with State Superintendent of Education Tony Smith to vent their frustrations about poor performance resu...
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ACT vs. PARCC: Which test shows if high schoolers are ready for college?Oct 30, 2015 5:00 am - Divergent results from two tests measuring how prepared Illinois students are for college are causing much consternation among suburban educators. Results from the ACT c...
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Only 28% of Illinois 8th-graders passed algebra, but is that bad?Oct 30, 2015 4:35 am - Editor's note: A previous version of this story said that 25.4 percent of 8th grade students in Illinois passed algebra. The state has updated its numbers to reflect...
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Student charged with bringing BB gun to Larkin HighOct 30, 2015 1:00 am - A student accused of bringing a BB gun to Larkin High School in Elgin Friday is facing a charge of disorderly conduct, police said. The school was on brief lockdown Frid...
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Streamwood High School nurse gets statewide honorOct 23, 2015 1:00 am - Streamwood High School Nurse Mary Girardi will be named 2015 State School Nurse of the Year Saturday by the Illinois Association of School Nurses at the Oakbrook DoubleT...
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Watchdog group calls police about U-46 meetingOct 20, 2015 1:00 am - Members of a tax watchdog group called police to an Elgin Area School District U-46 meeting Monday night to complain of Open Meetings Act violations. Their claims interr...
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Funeral set for Bartlett High student killed in Elgin motorcycle crashOct 15, 2015 1:00 am - Funeral services for a Bartlett High School varsity football player killed Wednesday in a motorcycle crash in Elgin are set for Friday. The janazah, or funeral prayer, f...
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Transgender students aren't a new issue for suburban schoolsOct 14, 2015 5:30 am - Last year at Round Lake High School, a transgender student asked for more unisex bathrooms. The school now has eight. Eight years ago, the first openly transgender stude...
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Elgin school among three statewide to win fitness centerOct 09, 2015 1:00 am - With a new, state-of-the-art fitness center, Abbott Middle School in Elgin is on its way to becoming the healthiest school in the Elgin-area district. "That is the goal,...
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Will federal funding spawn more suburban charter schools?Oct 07, 2015 5:35 am - Could a proposal to create a charter school in Elgin, defeated last year, be revived with the injection of federal funding? Illinois is among eight states selected to re...