Romeoville 05-15-14

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Your Community, Your News

MAY 15, 2014

Vol. 8 No. 45

community

schools

Grand time for library’s ‘Great Read’ Legacy Girls perform at the White Oak Library to celebrate culmination of program

By Laura Katauskas | Staff Reporter

By Laura Katauskas

With increased focus in the school system comes accountability, and as standards change, so do the means to gauge them. And all it comes at a cost. Based on the federal government and the state’s belief the bar has been set too low in education, an initiative to increase rigor and develop systemic change through school districts has been in the works for the past few years, including common core standards in 2010.

katauskas@buglenewspapers.com @lkatauskas

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staff reporter

Gas was 12 cents a gallon, the average wage was 25 to 45 cents and half of the homes didn’t have indoor plumbing during the time our nation faced World War II. >> see great read | page 3


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