Education

WONDER LAKE – Three longtime teachers are bracing for the final days of class at Harrison School.

CRYSTAL LAKE – To help students in the northwest corner of McHenry County save time and transportation costs, McHenry County College will offer select classes in Harvard in the fall semester.

CRYSTAL LAKE – With lawmakers considering steep cuts to education funding, school officials in McHenry County may be forced to rethink everything from class sizes to staffing in the coming years.

McHENRY – School District 15 board members paved the way for new playground equipment at two schools, maintenance at others and asphalt paving work.

HARVARD – The 2012 graduates of Harvard High School took their places Tuesday evening on Dan Horne Field, where they had spent the past four years attending football games, cheering on the Harvard squad, running track and goofing off in gym classes.

HEBRON – Their green, shapeless gowns were ironed. Mortarboard hats were in place. Tassels were adjusted to the correct side.

HOFFMAN ESTATES – Hampshire High School seniors proved that they not only embraced change, but used the opportunity to “create an identity they can be proud of,” Principal Chuck Bumbales said.

HOFFMAN ESTATES – Dundee-Crown High School valedictorian David Nellessen praised his fellow graduates Saturday for all that they have achieved, but he also posed a challenge.

CRYSTAL LAKE – The Saints of Faith Lutheran High School came marching into Immanuel Lutheran Church on Saturday morning as high school students and left as graduates. The ceremony consisted of friends and family sending off the school’s 11 graduates into the next phase of their lives.

HOFFMAN ESTATES – Speaking to the Jacobs High School Class of 2012, valedictorian Allison Dianis praised her class Saturday for its achievements and recalled the wise words given to Spider-Man.

WOODSTOCK – One last time.

CRYSTAL LAKE – School District 47 is considering full-day kindergarten in the 2013-14 school year, but parents might have to pay for it.

LAKE IN THE HILLS – Inside Kathleen Bacon’s Lincoln Prairie Elementary classroom, students sing about a crawling caterpillar becoming a butterfly that flies away to the tune of “Itsy Bitsy Spider.”

McHENRY – Even though school colors are black and orange, there was one other predominant color at the McHenry High School East Campus graduation: purple.

CRYSTAL LAKE – Six students graduated Wednesday from Education and Careers Pathways, a program helping special needs students 18 years old and older transition to college studies or enter the workforce.