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On a new Teachers' Lounge podcast, Rockford’s Lathrop Elementary School Principal Daniela Boer!Daniela has had a fascinating career. She’s from Brazil, came to northern Illinois as an exchange student in high school, went back home, taught in Brazil, lived in Mexico, and, eventually, returned to the U.S. to teach in Rockford.
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El auditorio en East High School en Rockford está llena con estudiantes presentando proyectos de ciencia. Todos son nuevos al distrito – de hecho, son nuevos al país. Son de países alrededor del mundo: Irak, Siria y Uganda – y eso no incluye los estudiantes que provenientes de países hispanohablantes como Venezuela, quienes asisten a Jefferson High School.
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Just this year, most Rockford elementary schools extended their school day by over half an hour to focus on literacy. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports on how the initiative is going so far...
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When kids are charged with a crime, while presumed innocent, they’re sometimes detained at county juvenile detention centers while they wait for their case to be resolved. The centers are mandated to provide education. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports on northern Illinois centers labeled “non-compliant” by the state in education and discipline.
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Some northern Illinois school districts are seeing an increase in migrant students over the past few years. WNIJ’s Peter Medlin reports on how Rockford Public Schools is helping their newcomer students and why some teachers say they don’t have enough support.
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This year’s Illinois Report Card was released Monday. It’s an online education database on every K-12 school in Illinois. Peter Medlin reports on what this year’s report card shows for the state’s 3rd-largest school district: Rockford Public Schools.
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35 middle schoolers volunteered to be part of the Human Library; to share a story that in some way -- good or bad -- has defined their life.
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The new school year begins at Rockford Public School on Thursday. But with it comes some last-minute schedule changes that are leaving some frustrated.
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Students everywhere failed more classes during the pandemic. Some students try to make it up in the summer. We’re going to summer school.
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In the 2019-20 school year, 10% of all Rockford Public Schools students were considered homeless under the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. That’s 2,800 students. For comparison, there were more Rockford students considered homeless than total students in the Dixon School District.