Articles filed under Prospect Heights District 23
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Beloved Prospect Heights band instructor retiring after 40 yearsApr 06, 2010 11:00 pm - Not many people stay at the same job for 40 years - especially one involving adolescents - but Dave Thomas, the MacArthur Middle School band director, has stuck around t...
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District 23 fees to increaseNov 19, 2009 10:00 pm - Student fees in Prospect Heights Elementary District 23 will increase by $10 for the 2010-2011 school year. Early Childhood and kindergarten students will pay $50 each, ...
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Prospect Heights school welcomes veteransOct 15, 2009 11:00 pm - MacArthur Middle School invites all veterans and their families in the Prospect Heights Elementary District 23 area to come for breakfast. The event is at 8:30 a.m. Tues...
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Suburban schools try new approach for wind farmSep 27, 2009 11:00 pm - When three suburban school districts devised a new funding model to build a 20-Megawatt wind farm downstate, one of its architects described the districts as the "Don Qu...
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District 23 asks parents, community for help making cutsSep 22, 2009 11:00 pm - Taxpayers often complain that elected officials play fast and loose with their hard-earned money. Now, the Prospect Heights Elementary District 23 school board is chall...
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Special ed cooperative still innovative after 40 yearsAug 27, 2009 11:00 pm - Veteran teacher Marion Timmons, starting her 30th year working with special needs students at Kirk School in Palatine, wasted no time getting going. After getting accli...
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District 300 takes step toward wind powerAug 11, 2009 11:00 pm - Community Unit District 300 moved a step closer to formalizing a school district consortium to explore the creation of a wind farm in downstate Illinois. School board m...
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Thanks, Coach Fed, from a 'Fedhead'Aug 09, 2009 11:00 pm - In 1973 Greg Fedyski ("Fed") was my eighth-grade basketball coach at MacArthur Junior High School. At that time, if you wanted to play basketball for Fed, you had to run...
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Schools look for private investment to help fund wind farmAug 02, 2009 11:00 pm - When state Sen. Michael Noland and state Rep. Fred Crespo went to bat for wind power last year, they predicted a hard-fought battle against Illinois' electric utilities....
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Longtime Northwest suburban track coach dies in NebraskaJul 23, 2009 11:00 pm - Greg "Fed" Fedyski made a living getting kids to love running, and his most famous pupil ran all the way to the Olympics. "Kids in middle school don't want to get up at ...