🌱 Mixed state ratings for Valmeyer schools
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- Mixed state ratings for Valmeyer schools
Today's riddle: What are the two sides of a circle? 🤔 (Answer below!)
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- Wednesday: Not as warm, becoming breezy, with a high of 69 and low of 42 degrees.
- Thursday: Mostly cloudy; breezy, cooler, temps: high: 51, low: 33.
- Friday: Breezy in the morning, with a high of 47 and low of 26 degrees.
📰 News we're reading
• Strong report card for Monroe County - Republic-Times (republictimes.net) — Valmeyer’s latest Illinois Report Card shows mixed results: the elementary school earned an Approaching Exemplary designation, while the junior high and high school received Developing ratings. The district’s 94.7 percent graduation rate exceeded the statewide rate, but math proficiency was 31 percent on the Illinois Assessment of Readiness and 17.1 percent on the ACT. 
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🗞 Nearby News
Waterloo
- HNS readies for season of giving - Republic-Times (republictimes.net)
- Huffman medals at state meet - Republic-Times (republictimes.net)
- We Asked ‘What's Your Sign?' To Make A Cosmic Connection (tomorrowstechnician.com)
Columbia
- Blue Jays fly for 60 years - Republic-Times (republictimes.net)
- Amended complaint in MCSD suit - Republic-Times (republictimes.net)
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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: "What are the two sides of a circle?" — The inside and the outside ! (Thank you James M. for sending it in!)
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