Monday, April 8, 2013
Former Glencoe resident Barbara Savitt died March 27 at the age of 81.
Barbara Savitt, who served for 27 years at Wilmette Public Schools District 39, passed away at the age of 81 on March 27, after a brief battle with cancer, Wilmette Life reported. Cathy Flemming, a former Harper Elementary School teacher while Savitt served as the school’s principal, says Savitt was great at spontaneous community building, as well as supporting students and teachers through her decades of teaching and administration, Wilmette Life reported.
Friday, February 1, 2013
Five schools from Wilmette Elementary Schools District 39 and the Joseph Sears School in Kenilworth were given the honor for sustaining high academic performance for three consecutive years.
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Friday, February 1
Both Wilmette Elementary Schools District 39 and Kenilworth School District 38 were given high honors by the Illinois State Board of Education this week. The districts have a total of six schools named to the Academic Honor Roll and given the 2012 Academic Excellence Award. Central Elementary School, Harper Elementary School, Marie Murphy School, McKenzie Elementary School, Romona Elementary School and the Joseph Sears School are among 454 Illinois schools receiving the award. The schools honored all sustained high academic performances over the past three years. According to the Illinois State Board of Education, schools that receive the Academic Excellence Award must have at least 90 percent of elementary and middle students meeting …
Sunday, November 4, 2012
The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times recently released their rankings.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
The Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times recently released their rankings.
Wilmette and Kenilworth schools are some of the best in Illinois and Chicagoland, according to a pair of recent Chicago Tribune lists and Chicago Sun-Times rankings. Local school that made the various ‘top 50’ lists include New Trier High School, Marie Murphy School, Romona Elementary, McKenzie Elementary, Harper Elementary, Wilmette Junior High and The Joseph Sears School. The two publications used different methods to determine school rankings. The Tribune chose the top 50 high schools and grade schools in Chicagoland based on the percentage of students that met or exceeded state standards on the 2012 Illinois State Achievement Test (for third through eight grade students) and the Prairie State Achievement Examination (for high school …
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5:26 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Dan Biss' Springfield ATM Machine is your home. What do you think is going to happen to the budgets of our the great schools in the 9th Senate District if "Professsor" Biss and Elaine Nekritz get their way to cost -shift Pension Liability on the backs of financially strapped Local School districts? There will be no recourse but for Local School districts to pass those costs on to financially … more ›