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Kevin Zhu shows off some of his coding in Tabith Dunn's class at Kenwood School in Champaign, IL on Tuesday, November 7, 2017. photo by Darrell Hoemann/C-U Citizen Access

Champaign schools implement coding curriculum

Post author:Lindsey Sofolo / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:November 30, 2017
Post category:Education

Champaign Unit 4 Schools have implemented a curriculum based around coding, beginning in kindergarten and going all the way up through high school. The students have designated time each week to learn how to code through the programming language Scratch.

Read more about the article As deadline approaches for action on downtown jail, Champaign County faces funding and activists as roadblocks

Darrell Hoemann

Darrell Hoemann/The News-Gazette One of the grouped areas. Photos at the Champaign County jail in downtown Urbana on Monday, March 11, 2013.

As deadline approaches for action on downtown jail, Champaign County faces funding and activists as roadblocks

Post author:Casandra Purcell / For CU-CitizenAccess
Post published:November 16, 2017
Post category:Justice

With a U.S. Department of Justice-imposed deadline approaching, Champaign County officials have increasing pressure on them to either renovate or close the 37-year-old jail in downtown Urbana.