Congratulations Voters, You're Paying to Build Club Med High
The Daily Herald Opinion Section today brings us news that the pictures of the new high school voters just approved in Indian Prairie District 204 looks more like club med than a high school. Just remember voters, it was for the kids. They need to relax from all the pressure they receive in high school. [...]
No Tax Pledge: Bad Public Policy
The quote below by Illinois Education Association President Ken Swanson who was addressing the union’s representative assembly on March 9. It is now the quote of the week at the Education Integlligence Agency. (Hat tip: The Champion) “The blunt reality is that the way we used to do business with the politicians and policymakers [...]
School Board Member Receives Death Threats
What kind of person would threaten to kill a school board member? Especially when there only offense appears to be questioning the status quo in the school district and by putting the focus on the students instead of the board. (Hat tip: Students First) [Emphasis mine] “The reason I ran was to make sure [...]
School Board Blogs
Thanks to a couple of school board members who blog or have their own websites here is a list of school board blogs and school board member blogs. Hat tip to Going to the Mat blogger Matt Johnston for reminding me about Diane Wier’s blog. She is a school board member who blogs. The majority [...]
Public to Sue Jersey County Schools
A group of residents are suing the Jersey County schools over their school construction bonds (Hat tip: Students First). The referendum to build a new school was rejected in 1999 with a 71% No vote. “In our district, we went from needing $531,000 in repairs on our high school with one architect, to suddenly [...]
Teacher Contract Lawyer Disbared
The News-Sun had the article below yesterday. Read it and then ask yourself these questions: What other districts did Loren help with these sham contracts? Who else received kickbacks like this? How much has this cost the you? [Emphasis Mine] The Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission of the Illinois Supreme Court has disbarred Steven [...]
Lake Woebegon Testing
Extreme Wisdom does a great job with this article outing the testing industry as just another branch of Big Ed who is destroying the reliability of testing to prevent any accountability on their part. It is well worth the time to read. Here is a sample. Few people remember when the news covering the [...]
School Board Ethics Question
Should school board members who receive money from Teachers unions vote on teacher contracts? That is the question being asked in a couple of school districts right now. The first is Woodland District 50 where two board members who received money to run for elected offices just voted in favor of the new teacher contracts. [...]
William Blair Bond Presentation
I was able to get the entire Bond presentation by Elizabeth Hennessey of William Blair & Company scanned in. This presentation was given to the school board at their March 20th meeting. Presentation Topics: Page 1 is a title page Pages 2-4 detail the bonds issued last year from both the 1999 and 2004 bond [...]
Round Lake Park Trustee is Out of Line
“Round Lake Park trustee is out of line” is the title of a letter to the editor in todays Daily Herald. This letter is in reference to Trustee Tuebert going to the newspaper to air his grievance instead of to the school board first. In the March 21 Fence Post, John Teubert, an appointed [...]
