Despite state budget issues, work continues across the NCI-Starved Rock Region to ensure Illinois students will graduate high school ready with the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful in life after high school — college and career. For several months now, educators, government, business and non-profit leaders in NCI-Starved Rock, which mirrors the IVCC …
Article from BCRNEWS.com, November 5, 2014 Eight manufacturers open facilities for expo About 270 area high school students from 13 schools toured eight manufacturers Oct. 22 as part of the North Central Regional Betterment Coalition’s (NCRBC) North Central Illinois Discover Manufacturing Career Expo. Carus was one of eight manufacturers who sponsored the event and hosted …
Article taken from LaSalle News Tribune, October 20, 2014 The 2014 North Central Illinois Discover Manufacturing Career Expo will be 8:30am – 2:30pm Wednesday, Oct. 22. For the second year, the Discover Manufacturing Career Expo will connect high school students and manufacturers to help raise awareness of manufacturing opportunities in the Illinois Valley. One Illinois …
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Article originally published in the Bureau County Republican, March 5, 2014 SPRING VALLEY — A coalition of major stakeholders and education advocates in Spring Valley will hold a community-wide forum at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday on the new importance of education in determining the economic prospects for the city and its residents. The meeting will be …
Article originally published in the LaSalle News Tribune, August 22, 2013 The North Central Illinois Discover Manufacturing Career Expo will be held on Oct. 23. Plant tours will be held at LCN in Princeton; Black Bros. in Mendota; Vactor in Streator; MBL in Ottawa; Carus Chemical in LaSalle; and Eakas in Peru from 9 to …
Article originally published in the LaSalle News Tribune, April 20, 2013 By Matthew Baker Just minutes after the community room in Peru City Hall was filled with the sounds of children playing a spur-of-the-moment round of musical chairs, the noise dropped to sub-whisper levels as the children took their sides around a handful of chess …
Article originally published in the Bureau County Republican, May 21, 2009 What issue can get former Republican Go. Jim Edgar and former Democrat Commerce Secretary William Daley to agree? How about the education of Illinois’ youth? “It’s obviously no secret that Gov. Edgar and I view many aspects of the world differently, but we do …
Article originally published in the Bureau County Republican, May 19, 2009 MENDOTA – Take any four Illinois high school freshmen, simmer for four years, and what do you get? Well, according to recent statistics, you’ll get one high school drop-out, one graduate ready to face whatever life throws him, and two who will graduate high …
Article originally published in the Bureau County Republican, April 12, 2011 By Barb Kromphardt – bkromphardt@bcrnews.com Educating our students PRINCETON – The educators came to Princeton’s Prouty Building Tuesday, the first part of an effort to deepen community involvement in education reform presented by the North Central Regional Betterment Coalition (NCRBC). J. Burt, president of …
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