This letter to the editor from the yesterday’s Daily Herald has a compromise to the school funding in Illinois.
A compromise plan for funding schools
Even the most selfish and greedy of parents and school board members who demand the very best for the children must sometimes wonder how retired, fixed-income homeowners can cope with [...]
The agenda for the school board meeting Monday night is up on the D46 website. I have the agenda portion copied below:
TENTATIVE
AGENDA
BOARD OF EDUCATION
COMMUNITY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT 46
MONDAY, MAY 1, 2006
MIDDLE SCHOOL
7:30 p.m.
A. Call to Order
B. Roll Call
C. Establishment of Quorum
D. Pledge of Allegiance
E. Approval of Agenda
F. Public Comment
G. Consent Agenda
Approval of Minutes
Approval of [...]
The Q & A below appeared in todays Daily Herald. It provides useful information about how tax bills work and why they continue to rise.
It is a reminder that tax bills are just around the corner. According to the Lake County Treasurer bills are due June 6th and Sept. 6th. [...]
Dr. Mosshamer, who resigned in March, was working out the final months of his contract. Early last week, after the school board meeting on April 17th he was asked to work the remainder of his time from home.
The article below from the Daily Herald has Dr. Mosshamer claims [...]
What do you think happens to a program designed to bring the internet to the neediest schools in the country and provide zero accountability? You guessed, you get a “pit of waste, fraud and abuse“.
There have been bribes, kickbacks, overcharges, faulty equipment, billing for no equipment, and many other abuses. A [...]
This is an old math joke. It is funny because there is a grain of truth to it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
Last week I purchased a burger at Burger King for $1.58; the counter girl took my $2 and I was digging for my change when I [...]
The Chicago Matters: Valuing Education Series in underway. I had a friend email me to let me know that the first programs name had been set as Education Matters. It appears that they decided to use the name of my blog to kick off their series. How do I know that? [...]
How ironic is the timing of this? Glen Ellyn District 41 has just hired a new Superintendent. The new Superintendent will be making 54% more than the outgoing Superintendent who made this statement a few days ago about why it’s legal to overtax the district taxpayers. The following quote is from the [...]
After another defeat this spring, Winthrop Harbor Supt. James Tenbusch is getting the Illinois State Board of Education to help find ways to regulate the free speech of the citizens who speak out against tax increases. Here is the quote from today’s Chicago Tribune.
Tenbusch on Thursday accused some tax-increase opponents of making false claims [...]
Why are so many school districts so arrogant they don’t listen to the taxpayers anymore? They believe they are entitled to taxpayer money and they show this each and every time they take more than the voters approve. This is currently happening here in Grayslake at both the elementary and high school districts. [...]
Did you know your old computer can be refurbished to help a school? This weekend there is a drive to get 100,000 old computers donated to help schools. I found this link via Illinois Bloggers. The drive is being headed by Lt. Gov. Quinn and Computers for Schools Association. Below is [...]
Below are my notes from the school board meeting last night. If there are corrections or additions please let me know. My comments will be [italicized].
A. Call to Order
B. Roll Call
Cheryl – present
Kristen – present
Sue – present
Jill – present
Karen – will be late
Keith – will be late
Mark – family emergency and will not [...]
Last night at the D46 School Board meeting there was a presentation given by Fed Ed. This is a lobbying group started by 2 former School Superintendents who represent the needs of Suburban schhols in Washington. I’ll have more on this in my board notes when I get them up later today. [...]
The Staff Report from the March 20th School Board meeting is online. This report shows the following staff members have resigned:
Jenny Hague – MS 7th gr. Science
Edgar Mosshamer – Asst. Supt. for Learning/Data
Stephanie Pacer – MS Eighth Grade Science
Dulce Reyes – PV Bilingual Teacher
Maricela Torres – Currently on Leave of Absence
Christian Vogel – MS [...]
The Daily Herald is reporting that a PTO leader is accused of stealing PTO money. She has supposedly written over $10,000 dollars to herself out of the PTO funds she was supposed to be using for the children.
As president of a St. Charles parent-teacher group, Kelly J. McKenna’s duties included overseeing money raised for [...]
The Magic School Bus now has the 62nd Carnival of Education up and running. Please get on the bus for an interesting ride. You’ll get an interesting mix of the 10 plagues of Egypt along the way.
Governor Mitt Romney is trying to reform education in Massachusetts (Hat tip: CRAFT. Emphasis Mine.
It’s time we get moving, starting with education. First, close the Excellence Gap. American 15-year-olds rank 24th out of 29 OECD countries in math literacy and 19th in science. Fifteen years ago, the United States and Asia produced about [...]
I have been able to confirm that Dr. Ken Rose is leaving his position as Principal of Avon School. It was annouced at the Palatine Board Meeting that he had been hired in their district. I am not sure whether he has officially resigned from District 46 at this time however.
The Daily Herald has 2 articles about the Grayslake High School Teacher now accused of molesting a student. The second story is a followup. Excerpts are below:
A former Grayslake Community High School teacher was ordered held on $50,000 bond Tuesday after being charged with molesting a student at the school.
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Glick, [snip], was a [...]
Below are my notes from the school board meeting tonight. If there are corrections or additions please let me know. My comments will be [italicized].
A. Call to Order
Ellen introduced Illimunations
Music program at Middle School
Special Presentation performed for those present
They have 20 members
At contest they had 17 first ratings and 1 second rating
Several perfect [...]
John Biver of the Family Taxpayer Network has written a great analysis of why so many referendums passed this year. It is in 2 parts and is titled: The Threat to Make the Schools Worse Proves to be a Winning Strategy. Here is an excerpt:
Typically after an election one side is victorious and [...]
UPDATE: I’ll hopefully get my notes up tomorrow night. A quick note though, the school day is not being shortened. It was explained at the board meeting the form only shows instructional time. It is a quirk of the form that has to be filed.
TENTATIVE AGENDA
BOARD OF EDUCATION COMMUNITY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL [...]
Please print and pass this flyer out to your friends and neighbors. Let them know they need to speak up now if they want their taxes lowered starting next year.
Also, for your convenience you can email the entire school board with a single click: Email The D46 School Board . I had considered this [...]
What do you think some school district do when they can’t pass a referendum? They go to the State Legislature and try to circumvent the taxpayer. This is exactly what Peoria District 150 is now doing.
House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie, a Chicago Democrat, is the lead sponsor of a bill to give [...]
District 26 in Cary may open up all or part of its teacher negotiations to the public. I knew this was on a previous board agenda. This would be fun to watch. The public would finally get a glimps into how the teacher unions operate. Maybe we can convince other districts [...]
While many schools finances improved this year, 12 in Lake County received lower state financial rankings. D 46 moved up receiving the highest ranking. This is an excellent achievement considering 4 failed education fund referendum over the past several years. It shows what a school board and district can do when working [...]
