Articles filed under Round Lake Unit District 116
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'Going to look normal': Many precautions will ease in schools even as COVID lingers
Aug 7, 2022 8:44 AM - Thousands of suburban students are heading back to classrooms starting this week as COVID-19 pandemic restrictions have eased. Yet, health officials are concerned how school leaders will handle the full return to in-person learning amid lingering COVID variants and the threat of monkeypox spreading. -
Round Lake High School Class of 2022
Jun 20, 2022 9:09 AM - Round Lake High School Class of 2022 -
Top Lake County educators honored at awards ceremony
May 6, 2022 8:01 PM - Teachers and administrators from nine school districts were honored this week at the inaugural Lake County Educator of the Year Awards ceremony. -
Dist. 116 leader named Lake County Superintendent of the Year
Feb 15, 2022 6:10 PM - Round Lake Unit District 116 Superintendent Donn Mendoza has been selected by his peers as the Lake County 2021-22 Superintendent of the Year. -
Why teaching about critical race theory has become a lightning rod in suburban schools
Jan 23, 2022 9:00 AM - Should American schools teach students about historical and structural racism? That's the debate raging nationally and has become a political flashpoint pitting parents against educators, school leaders and one another. -
Lake County schools hire more staff to curb pandemic decline
Dec 11, 2021 6:01 PM - To combat declining test scores seen in the latest Illinois Report Card and engage with students transitioning back to classroom learning this year, many Lake County school districts are hiring additional staff to serve as interventionists. -
How controversy has changed the way Columbus' story is taught in schools
Oct 11, 2021 6:11 AM - For generations, students in American elementary schools were taught Christopher Columbus "sailed the ocean blue" to discover America in 1492. But with growing controversy, lessons about Columbus are much more nuanced today in suburban classrooms, at least in the higher grades. -
Why some suburban school districts have a bus driver shortage and how they're adjusting
Sep 2, 2021 6:15 AM - Suburban school districts are being hit by a nationwide shortage of school bus drivers, exacerbated by an unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic that has created a scarcity of workers in many areas of the economy. Here's what's being done about it. -
Editorial: The suburbs' quiet little secret of poverty
Aug 24, 2021 1:00 AM - In this editorial, the Daily Herald commends officials in Round Lake Area Unit District 116 for hosting a program designed to help suburban residents understand the realities of poverty. -
Round Lake school's simulation aimed to show teachers, community effects of poverty
Aug 21, 2021 11:22 AM - After a Round Lake Area District 116 middle school took part in a social experiment simulating living in poverty, some participants left with tears and frustration over the challenges facing impoverished families and students.
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