Hurricane Katrina Blogger Relief Day

I am joining many other bloggers around the U.S. and World trying to help raise money for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation she wrought on the Gulf Coast. I am recommending Feed The Children as the charity I would like to help. I have 2 children. I know what it would be [...]

Winthrop Harbor Special Referendum

Winthrop Harbor Elementary Distict 1 is being very audacious in their attempts to get a referendum passed. They went to court to get them to allow what they are calling an “Emergency Referendum”. The election will be held October 11. The district is trying to sneak this through folks. It’s not an emergency. How do [...]

Money Saving Reminder for Teachers

Here is a freindly reminder from Students First, “Save those receipts”.            IRS reminds teachers to save receipts Tuesday, August 30, 2005 By Anita Szoke Source: Peoria Journal Star Out-of-pocket expenses can lower taxes PEORIA – Teachers, save those back-to-school receipts. With back-to-school sales in full swing, the Internal Revenue Service is reminding teachers and [...]

More Problems Found in D-158

District 158 continues to find more problems with their financials. From these reports it does not appear the State is doing a good job of oversight either. This district passed their referendum and the voters are still finding out about all the abuses and total lack of accountability its’ past Administration had.            District 158 [...]

D46 BOE Meeting 8/29

Todays special Board Meeting was held to discuss payments to Ruck/Pate and PCM that were delayed at last week’s regular meeting. The delay was due to some questions by the board members of the billed amounts. It appears there are still questions to be answered, because the Ruck/Pate payment was delayed again for more discussions. [...]

Christian High School Sues University of California system

This is going to be a case for all homeschoolers and those that attend a Relgious school of any kind to watch as it progresses through the courts. It could very well end up at the Supreme Court and have very dramatic ramifications on private edcuation institutions and I believe ramifications on public eduation as [...]

D46 BOE Email

I have discovered an issue with the BOE email. I know there have been several of you that have not received a response from the Board. The issue is the Board may not have received it. What is happening is that if you use web-based email your email may be breaking. This is due to [...]

Another Superintendent In Trouble

Lemont’s school district is not having great luck choosing Superintendents. The current Superintendent, Thomas F. Cusack, was arrested for soliciting. Read the full story in the Chicago Tribune. Cusack replaced the last Superintendent when he was fired for lying about a fine after his sex related escapades.            A Lemont schools superintendent who was set [...]

The Enronification Of Big Ed

By now, I am sure everyone in Illinois knows about what is happening in the Sauk Village schools. If not, start here. I had a discussion with Bruno from Extreme Wisdom a few days ago. We discussed how Big Ed is becoming more and more like Enron every day, especially here in Illinois. Bruno points [...]

Homeschoolers and the Big Ed Monopoly

I know I don’t usually post about homeschool topics here, but I thought this was very releveant. I found this posting about Home Schoolers & the Education Monopoly at this week’s Education Carnival. They are ask the following question, “If teaching is a profession, why can a bunch of amateurs do so well?” This question [...]

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