Articles filed under Elgin Area Unit District 46
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Gender gap persists in STEM education participationAug 23, 2013 5:15 am - Jane Halloran doesn't hesitate when asked about her future career plans. The South Elgin teen has been certain she'll go into environmental engineering ever since her in...
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Bartlett girl gets mentorship from NASA engineerAug 22, 2013 11:10 am - Becky Goetzke had five mentoring sessions with a NASA engineer this past summer. Not bad for an 11-year-old. Becky just started fourth grade at Sycamore Trails Elementar...
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Elgin middle school safely evacuated after gas leakAug 21, 2013 11:00 am - Students were evacuated for a few hours on Wednesday from Abbott Middle School in Elgin after a road construction crew caused a gas leak, Elgin police said. The leak was...
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U-46 has mostly smooth start to new school yearAug 19, 2013 3:57 pm - Last week not a single student was transported by school bus in Elgin Area School District U-46. Monday, 26,000 students were taken to 53 schools. Friday not a single s...
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U-46 offers up balanced budget for 2014Aug 19, 2013 4:37 am - Elgin Area School District U-46 administrators offered a balanced budget to the board of education Monday night but one that included plenty of sobering details. Proper...
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Some locals still fighting Common CoreAug 18, 2013 8:03 am - The new Common Core State Standards for reading and math are not without their critics. Erin Raasch, a Villa Park mom, runs the website StopCommonCoreIL.org. She aggrega...
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New curriculum standards change suburban classroomsAug 18, 2013 8:00 am - Times are changing, and classrooms are changing along with them. For this year’s start of the eighth-grade math class Evan Borkowski teaches at Algonquin Middle School,...
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U-46 teachers to get new laptopsAug 15, 2013 5:00 am - As Elgin Area School District U-46 teachers get their classrooms in order ahead of students' return next week, most also will be logging into new laptops. The district ...
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Log your minutes before the end of summer readingAug 08, 2013 5:25 pm - Community partnerships have fueled the incredible growth in summer reading through Elgin’s Gail Borden Public Library over the last two years and library leaders believe...
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Bartlett High School dean remembered for her kind spiritAug 06, 2013 5:30 am - When classes start at Bartlett High School in two weeks, staff members and students will return to a community changed by the loss of a beloved dean. Ann Kallenbach, who...