By Sue Ter Maat stermaat@@dailyherald.com Mount Prospect's Fairview Elementary School on Thursday presented its academic improvement plan, which will focus on reading and writing this school year.

By Phyllis Coulter NORMAL - A lot of people go through some lean times when they start a new career. Kindergarten teacher Stephanie Schroeder is a case in point. She learned to be frugal when her first job, as a full-time pre- kindergarten teacher's aide, paid her less than $12,400 last year.

By Kelly Kramp, High Point Enterprise, N.C. Jan. 26--HIGH POINT -- With a large percentageof its student body from families in transition, Fairview Elementary School was losing more books from its media center than it could replace.