Kane County schools had a truancy rate of 19.2% in the 2021-22 school year, the Illinois State Board of Education reported. That’s higher than the state average.
Schools among Kane County had the 16th highest truancy rate of 19.8% during the 2021-2022 school year, according to the Illinois State Board of Education report.
Batavia teacher named Kane County Educator of the Year Susan Jones, who teaches at Alice Gustafson Elementary School in Batavia, was honored in a ceremony Friday as Kane County Educator of the Year.
Updated 4/30/2021 9:40 PM
A special-education teacher in Batavia Unit District 101 was named Kane County Educator of the Year Friday.
Susan Jones, who teaches at Alice Gustafson Elementary School, has been a teacher for 33 years, according to a news release from the Kane County Regional Office of Education.
She received a $3,000 prize from the ROE, to be used for a project of her choosing at her school.
The ceremony honored nominees from the 2019-2020 school year, after last year s ceremony was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.