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06/15/11 Lawyers for Elgin Area School District U-46 continued to argue this week that a federal judge should dismiss the racial discrimination case the district is facing because plaintiffs failed to prove their case. In the new filing, lawyers say the plaintiffs didn't show U-46 could have done any better for its minority students -- a requirement of the Illinois Civil Rights Act, under which part of ...
05/05/11 More than 900 high school seniors in Elgin Area School District U-46 recieved National Career Readiness Certificates this year -- giving them a leg up on other graduates seeking jobs.
12/07/10 Attorneys for Elgin Area School District U-46 have filed a new motion arguing that the plaintiffs in the long-running racial bias case against the district have in many instances not suffered the wrongs alleged in the lawsuit.
10/04/10 Election packets are available for interested candidates in Elgin Area School District U-46. Four 4-year seats will be up for grabs in the April 2011 school board elections; those seats are currently held by Ken Kaczynski, Maria Bidelman, Karen Carney and Amy Kerber.
04/29/10 Elgin Area School District U-46 officials announced Wednesday that Jeff Smith has been selected to replace Lorraine Cruz as principal of Canton Middle School in Streamwood, beginning next fall.
03/17/10 Each one of the 53 schools in Elgin Area School District U-46 has its own culture, its own reputation, its own personality. Take Elgin High - one of the state's oldest high schools, steeped in more than 130 years of tradition.
03/09/10 Elgin Area School District U-46 is using its school marquees to make an 11th-hour appeal to Gov. Pat Quinn.
12/06/09 A total of 250 students from Bartlett, Elgin, Larkin, South Elgin and Streamwood high schools have been named Illinois State Scholars by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission. This is an increase of 20 students over last year for Elgin Area School District U-46.
12/03/09 A recent Associated Press report found that the number of black students facing discipline in Illinois public schools has soared in the last decade. Expulsion data from Elgin Area School District U-46 both confirms and contradicts the report's findings.
12/01/09 Lawyers for the five families suing Elgin Area School District U-46 on charges of racial bias have asked a federal judge to allow them more classroom visits in order to level the playing field between both sides' education experts.
11/16/09 In the midst of severe budget cuts, one Elgin Area School District U-46 program is getting a bonus.
11/12/09 A group of Elgin Area School District U-46 administrators will participate in a December fact-finding conference at the Illinois Department of Human Rights on charges that they discriminated against a Streamwood High School teacher.
10/21/09 After months of speculation, there won't be boundary changes next year in Elgin Area School District U-46 after all.
09/17/09 Hundreds of Elgin Area School District U-46 parents are likely pretty confused. In recent weeks, letters have been mailed off to the homes of students attending 10 elementary schools that are in "school improvement status" after failing to meet federal No Child Left Behind bench marks for two years in a row.
09/15/09 Elgin Area School District U-46's 2009 state test scores appear to be largely flat at the elementary level compared to last year, with a majority of schools unable to meet rising federal No Child Left Behind benchmarks.
08/26/09 Nearly 40,000 Elgin Area School District U-46 students went back to the books Wednesday for what promises to be a busy year for the state's second largest school district.
08/18/09 Elgin Area School District U-46 may pull back on spending $3 million to replace old school buses this year because of budget problems.
08/08/09 Two weeks after the results of a capital planning and facilities study found several schools packed to the brim and in need of quick relief, Elgin Area School District U-46 released a proposed set of attendance boundary guidelines for its Citizens Advisory Council.
08/06/09 Agreements for police liaison officers have been approved between Elgin Area School District U-46 and two of four municipal police departments at a reduced rate.
08/05/09 Numbers don't lie. But they can be manipulated to support very different points. Attorneys on either side of the lawsuit accusing Elgin Area School District U-46 of racial bias both say the results of a capital planning and facilities study will back their arguments in the drawn-out case.
08/04/09 A McHenry County College official will soon be overseeing the finances and operations of the state's second largest school district. Ronald Ally, currently the Treasurer and Vice President for Administrative Services at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, will begin working as Elgin Area School District U-46's Chief Financial and Operations Officer Aug. 17. | 
