The money comes at a time when every penny counts for the Elgin school and the 41,000-student district. In order to reduce a $48.6 million deficit, the school board is set to approve hundreds of budget cuts and staff layoffs later this month. <\/p>\n
Keyes, 17, a former Larkin High School student, died Nov. 8 after he was crushed by a car against an Elgin apartment building on the 200 block of Center Street. Timera D. Branch, 33, of Streamwood, faces first-degree murder charges. The killing happened, according to Keyes’ relatives, a day after Keyes punched Branch’s 16-year-old son in a feud over a girl.<\/p>\n
After the death, Larkin High School has reported that grieving students are having trouble focusing on school work, and school counselors have reported an increase in the number of referrals.<\/p>\n
“This grant will provide direct services to students at Larkin High School for the remainder of this school year,” District Safety Coordinator John Heiderscheidt said in a news release. “We recognize that what students experience in the community impacts their ability to learn at school. With these funds, we have the opportunity to reach out to students who have been exposed to a violent incident in school or in the community in order to get those students back on track toward graduation.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n John W. Keyes III’s tragic death last November sent shock waves through Elgin, even reaching the offices of local legislators. Congressman Bill Foster announced Monday that Larkin High School will receive a $47,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education, which will provide academic tutoring and anger management counseling for students affected by the tragedy. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/img><\/a>
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