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The most prevalent ethnicity in Kane County student body in the 2021-22 school year was Hispanic, according to the Illinois State Board of Education.
New Jersey Councilman Jeffrey Grossman and son Steven Grossman, both teachers, were given house arrest after being charged with child pornography.
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.
In the early morning hours of Sept. 23, the Sanford Bemidji Medical Center’s emergency department called the Bemidji Police Department to report suspicions of a sexual assault against an 11-year-old girl. The girl’s identity has not been shared publicly, but sources shared with Native News Online that she is Ojibwe, from one of the three Ojibwe Indian Reservations that surround Bemidji, Minnesota. Oscar Ernesto Luna, a 22-year-old man from Mission, Texas, is in custody and facing charges stemming from reports by the 11-year-old victim.
The impacted schools were Crandall Middle School, Dietz Elementary School, Noble-Reed Elementary School, Smith Elementary School, and Walker Elementary School.