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District U-46 Board ratifies varied proposals
By Seth Hancock   The Board of Education in School District U-46 approved three expenditure proposals totaling $16...

U-46 budget approved but controversy lingers
By Seth Hancock   The Fiscal Year 2018 budget in School District U-46, which sets spending at $517.9 million and r...

Bartlett sports complex primed for U-46 vote
By Seth Hancock   Work on a sports complex at Bartlett High School could start this fall if the Board of Education...

Appeal decision allows for U-46 charter school
By Seth Hancock   After months of negotiations with School District U-46 went in vain and after years of trying to...

Editorial Race Hustling on the U-46 School Board Part II
Part II   The public record demonstrates that U-46 Trustee Traci O’Neal Ellis sees racism everywhere, bu...

Editorial - Race Hustling on the U-46 School Board
Part I   U-46 Trustee Traci O’Neal Ellis is a hateful, divisive racist.   We think it best...

Editorial An Analysis of U-46 Budget, Part 1
The following is the first of two parts of a guest editorial by School District U-46 Board Member Phil Costello that pro...

U-46 board member rant draws meeting reaction
By Seth Hancock   A social media controversy hit the Board of Education in School District U-46 leading to several...

U-46 Board approves Fiscal Year 2018 budget
By Seth Hancock   The Board of Education in School District U-46 approved the Fiscal Year 2018 budget by a 5-1 vot...

U-46 approves expenses via unanimous vote
By Seth Hancock   The Board of Education in School District U-46 unanimously approved two expenditure items totali...

U-46 Board approves variety of expense items
By Seth Hancock   The Board of Education in School District U-46 approved $2.9 million in expenditure items betwee...

Sycamore Trails again wins reading challenge
By Seth Hancock   For the second straight year, Bartlett’s Sycamore Trails Elementary School was one of two ...

Vote looms in U-46 for Fiscal Year 2018 budget
By Seth Hancock   The Board of Education in School District U-46 will be voting on the Fiscal Year 2018 budget at ...

Debate continues over U-46 charter school plan
By Seth Hancock   The Illinois State Charter School Commission (ISCSC) heard from both proponents and opponents of...

Charter school appeal decision looms for U-46
By Seth Hancock   “We are disappointed to have to take this route,” Kerry Kelly, president of the Elgi...

Some U-46 schools react to Hurricane Harvey
By Seth Hancock   As residents in southern Texas rebuild after the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, citizens across ...

State funding bill likely to change U-46 budget
By Seth Hancock   A public hearing on School District U-46’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget will take place at the ...

Charter school in U-46 resurfaces via appeal
By Seth Hancock   The Elgin Math and Science Academy (EMSA) has new life after being denied a charter contract by ...

U-46 Board primed to vote on three proposals
By Seth Hancock   The Board of Education in School District U-46 will be set to vote on three proposals totaling $...

U-46 Board approves revision to board policy
By Seth Hancock   The U-46 Board of Education unanimously approved a revision to board policy as well as just unde...