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District 211 ratifies four-year teachers contractJan 17, 2019 12:00 am - Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board members Thursday unanimously ratified a four-year teachers contract retroactive to last summer despite the union presi...
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Construction to begin on long-awaited Jefferson center in District 200Jan 17, 2019 12:00 am - Preparations are underway for construction of a new Jefferson Early Childhood Center in Wheaton - a project more than six years in the making. As early as next week, dr...
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IndieFlix to shine light on anxiety with documentary screening Jan. 23 in BataviaJan 16, 2019 10:00 pm - IndieFlix, an independent online streaming platform, along with its nonprofit arm, the IndieFlix Foundation, is sparking a global conversation about anxiety through scre...
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District 54 to hold kindergarten registration on Feb. 6Jan 16, 2019 10:00 pm - District 54 will hold kindergarten registration for the 2019-20 school year on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019. Registration will take place from 9 to 11 a.m. and 5 to 7 p.m. at...
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Drug experts: Trust your gut about warning signs in your teen's roomJan 16, 2019 4:00 am - Seemingly innocuous items in your child's room can be signs for drug and alcohol use and abuse. That bottled water could be hiding vodka. Shake it — if it's flat, it's r...
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'You need to try to right that wrong': Freedom Rider urges Buffalo Grove students to fight racismJan 16, 2019 12:00 am - In 1961, Thomas Armstrong sat in a whites-only waiting room at a Jackson, Mississippi, bus station as he and three other Tougaloo College students tried to board a bus f...
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Despite union concerns, District 211 ready to vote on teachers contractJan 16, 2019 12:00 am - Palatine-Schaumburg High School District 211 board members are scheduled to vote Thursday night on a four-year teachers contract reached last month to narrowly avert a s...
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District 303 will start a week earlier in the fall, and parents' reactions are mixedJan 16, 2019 12:00 am - St. Charles Unit District 303 students will start classes a week earlier next academic year, a change that has spurred mixed reactions among parents. In a 2019-2020 cale...
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Benjamin Dist. 25 tabs Elmhurst educator as new superintendentJan 16, 2019 12:00 am - An Elmhurst school administrator, James Woell, has been named superintendent of Benjamin Elementary District 25 serving Carol Stream and unincorporated areas near West C...
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Dist. 50 seeking nominations for Gurnee Teacher of the YearJan 16, 2019 12:00 am - Gurnee-based Woodland School District 50 is seeking nominations from the community for the next Gurnee Teacher of the Year. The teacher must work at Woodland, Gurnee El...