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Education Matters: ESL native selected for NBC internship during Winter Olympics

Emily Pritchett, second from left, was presented her 2013 Illinois Retired Teachers Association Foundation (Area 6) scholarship check at the local St. Clair County Retired Teachers Association meeting on June 5. She is pictured with Bill Funkhouser, Area 6 representative, Ed Gray, Region 15 director, and Carol Hotz, St. Clair County president.

An East St. Louis native will be heading to Stamford, Conn., in February as part of an internship with NBC for the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Russia. Christopher Morgan, a senior at Bradley University in Peoria, was one of 15 students from the...

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EDUCATION

Belleville District 118 school board to consider hiring four new teachers

Belleville School District 118 school board will consider hiring four new teachers and reappointing two others during its meeting tonight.
EDUCATION

District 201 school board OKs $474,000 to purchase building

Belleville School District 201 school board on Monday approved spending $474,000 to purchase a building to house the district's administrative offices.
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'You are actually flying': Students test hovercrafts they built

Belle Valley eighth-grader Cayla Adams sports a red batting helmet as she steps onto the school's baseball diamond in Belleville.
EDUCATION

Belleville District 201 school board to discuss acquiring property

Belleville School District 201 school board will consider acquiring property during its meeting Monday night.
EDUCATION

'We want our kids to succeed': Mascoutah School District adopts new grading scale

Is a 91 on a school assignment an A or a B? It depends on what grading scale the school uses.
EDUCATION

Auditor: SIU lost hundreds of computers, at a cost of $416K

Southern Illinois University misplaced more than 250 computers in the last fiscal year, and its East St. Louis center failed to meet minimum federal standards for Head Start, according to a report from the state auditor general.
EDUCATION

O'Fallon church awards $21K in scholarships to high school graduates

New Life in Christ Interdenominational Church in O'Fallon presented scholarships totaling $21,000 to seven high school graduates during its annual education worship service Sunday.
EDUCATION

Belle Valley School Board buying back bonds to save money

In an effort to save money over the long term, the Belle Valley School Board has agreed to purchase back bonds with funds leftover from the construction of its new Belle Valley School building.
EDUCATION

'Freaking me out': Students dissect cat, learn how the body works

Sporting goggles and blue latex gloves, Tia Perkins, Carina Chalmers and Morgan Wills gently touches the larynx or voice box of a cat dissected by medical student Patrick Fitzgerald. All three girls are 11 years old and will be sixth-graders at Whiteside Middle School next year.
EDUCATION

Millstadt board hires new administrators, settles with current principal

Weeks after announcing Millstadt Consolidated School District 160 would hire one principal to head both of its public schools as a cost-savings measure, the school board on Tuesday hired a new principal and an assistant principal.