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0 Crime & Safety Students will be returning to school soon. The Crystal Lake Police Department is reminding residents on how to keep kids safe. Amie Schaenzer , Patch Staff Posted Reply CRYSTAL LAKE, IL — The Crystal Lake Police Department is again providing residents with bus safety tips as a reminder on how to keep children safe as school gets back in session soon. Police said that most children killed in bus-related crashes are either getting on or off the bus and are hit by a school bus or car illegally passing a stopped bus, according to a news release from the Crystal Lake Police Department. Residents are urged to be aware of school buses and to be extra cautious when driving through neighborhoods. Police are also reminding residents of the following traffic safety laws regarding school buses: When a school bus is traveling on a two-lane street and is stopped to pick up or drop off children, the vehicles … [Read more...] about Police Remind Residents Of School Bus Safety Tips

0 Schools The state adopted new rules on sex ed in schools last year. Community Unit School District 46 has updated its middle school curriculum. Amie Schaenzer , Patch Staff Posted Reply GRAYSLAKE, IL — Community Consolidated School District 46 in Grayslake, like many school districts throughout the Chicago area, has opted out of teaching sex education in line with national standards to its youngest students. Last year, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the Keeping Kids Safe & Health Act, which calls on Illinois schools to adopt National Sex Education standard. Under the law, school districts that teach sex education are now required to use the new standards for instruction, according to a memo from District 46. The new rules call for updated curriculum that provides personal health and safety education for schools that teach sex education to kindergarten through fifth grade students and comprehensive sexual health education … [Read more...] about D46 Will Not Adopt Sex Ed Standards For Youngest Students

0 Schools Area students from Arlington Heights are doing amazing things at colleges and universities across the United States. Eric DeGrechie , Patch Staff Posted Reply ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL — We're keeping track of all the major higher education accomplishments of area students. Send your submissions to [email protected] Bentz Earns Dean's List Honors for Spring 2022 Semester Nicholette Bentz , of Arlington Heights, earned Dean's List honors for the Spring 2022 semester at Emerson College. The requirement to make Dean's List is a grade point average of 3.7 or higher for that semester. Bentz is majoring in journalism and is a member of the Class of 2025. — Merit Pages News Delio Named to Dean's List at Kean University Kean University congratulates Amanda Delio , of Arlington Heights, for making the Spring 2022 Dean's List. Delio is a senior majoring in marketing and among more than 2,500 students … [Read more...] about College Credits: Arlington Heights Student Graduates From IWU

The University of Massachusetts Boston is cutting more than 20 summer courses as the school desperately attempts to manage a $30 million operating deficit that is due in part to a project labor agreement that requires unions to be the “sole and exclusive” source of job-site labor. The University has been plagued by controversy, ranging from declining enrollment to lackluster fundraising, but the project labor agreement (PLA) is one reason why the university must now cut classes in the summer, and into the fall, reports the Boston Globe . The university system’s building authority approved a 10-year master plan that called for $750 million in construction with a union work requirement. The requirement effectively excluded the 80 percent of Massachusetts construction workers that are not members of a union. The PLA, means less competition, fewer bidders and higher costs, the Boston Globe reports. The school’s Chancellor, J.Keith Motley, announced last week that he would step … [Read more...] about School Forced To Cut More Than 20 Classes In Order To Pay Labor Union

The first day of school for the 2022-23 academic year is right around the corner, and Hardin County Health Services Immunizations Clinics want to get your children ready for the new year. Hardin County Health Services Immunizations Clinics will be administering childhood and adult immunizations to both Hardin and Orange County residents at three locations across the region. Visitors must make an appointment to schedule an immunization for themselves or child. RELATED: Spindletop Center brings mobile mental health services to Kountze Kountze Location: 1135 Redwood St. To make an appointment: Call 409-209-5361 Time: Clinic is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, closed from noon to 1 p.m. for lunch. The clinic closes at noon on the last Friday of each month. Silsbee Location: 295 Highway 327 East, Ste. 295 To make an appointment: Call 409-679-8050 Time: Clinic is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, closed from noon to 1 … [Read more...] about Hardin, Orange counties offer back to school immunizations

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 2 A San Francisco school board member who was recalled from office in a landslide vote in February intends to run again for the position, one of nine candidates who have notified election officials of their intent to run for one of three seats in the November election. Gabriela López submitted her candidacy papers Thursday, according to the San Francisco Department of Elections, a day before the filing deadline. López was one of three school board members removed from the board in the recall. She was serving as board president at the time. The recall divided the city, with a grassroots effort of frustrated parents and community members pushing for the trustees’ removal over the slow reopening of schools during the pandemic and the board’s focus on controversial issues like renaming 44 school sites and ending the merit-based admission system at Lowell High School. Mayor London Breed … [Read more...] about Gabriela López, recalled San Francisco school board member, files plans to run again