The Woodland School District 50 approved their tentative budget which spends over $8 million dollars more than they receive.
Woodland board members recently approved a tentative budget showing a projected $68 million in revenue and $76.4 million in expenditures. Board members are expected to approve the final budget Sept. 27.
Community members may comment on [...]
The Lake County Board holds one of the keys to whether more housing will be built along Rollins Road. Without their approval, the projects will be scaled back or just die. This affects the Grayslake Elementary and High Schools since this would be the schools the children would atttend.
Plans for more than [...]
There are a number of good articles that I have not had time to comment on. I’d like to point out a few you should go read.
CRAFT
Are U.S. History Textbooks Still Full of Lies and Half-Truths?
Unions Serve Teachers, Fail the Students
Restitution?
The solution: School vouchers
Newspapers not giving full details of District 158 contract.
A warn for [...]
There was an interesting article in the opinion section of the Daily Herald today. It was about Woodland School District 50 installing cameras on their buses. The Herald asks are “Cameras really needed on buses?”
Security and surveillance cameras have crept their way more prominently into the American landscape in recent years, showing [...]
The following letter appeared today in the Daily Herald. The issues here go well beyond just this one school district. Other district have handed out bonuses or attempted to do so anyway.
Why do many school board members hide behind their office? Why do many only want one board member speaking [...]
Dr. Randy Davis annouced that the Grayslake Central High School AP Government class will be hosting a debate between all three 8th Congressional District candidates, Melissa Bean, Dave McSweeney, and Bill Schuerer.
The debate will be held Sept. 1 at 10:30 am. The AP class members and select media will be present. [...]
The Grayslake High School District 127 school board approved the Master Plan for upgrades to Garyslake Central at tonight’s school board meeting.
During the discussion school board President, Russ Hager stated, “We are not doing things that are extravagant”.
Very few of the actual items in the plan were discussed. Those that were, [...]
In the race to see who can spend the most on government schools Topinka is now promising $9.8 billion over the next four years. Both Topinka and Blagojevich are planning on gambling for the additional revenue. Topinka’s gamble is on a land-based Casino in Chicago. Blagojevich’s gamble is to sell or lease [...]
How do you help poor students, especially those in Chicago’s poor neighborhoods with gangs? The answer has already been provided in story from the Chicago Sun-Times, the Daily Herald, or the Chicago Tribune, no; the BBC. (Hat tip: Jesuit Items who does reside in Oak Park)
The Jesuits setup up a high school in [...]
This article was posted on another site and I thought I would share my response here as well about the Gary teacher strike.
Those who crossed were labeled scabs at an evening rally. Strike coordinator Joe Zimmerman urged members to take the names of such people and remember they “burned bridges.â€
Union officials tell the story of [...]
The following story is too ridiculous to make up. Locke Elementary had a pincipal who retired in 2000 who was caught stealing money from the school to gamble at the casino. Now, the current principal just resigned after admitting he was stealing money from the school to gamble at the track. Read [...]
There has been a lot of reporting on the sitiuation in Huntley School District 158. My stories are here. The best reporting though is coming from the McHenry County Blog.
In the past few days it has been revealed that Administrators receiving unauthorized pay, the school board finally approving a forensic [...]
There will be opposition to the proposed tax increase in Lincolnshire District 103. It will start tonight at their school board meeting where the vote will take place to put the referendum question on the ballot in November. Attend the meeting if you can and voice your opinion.
Citing financial mismanagement, Libertyville resident and [...]
Big Hollow School District #38 will be asking voters to approve a tax rate increase of $1.35. This is an increase of over $1500 or 55%. Jack Martin, Chairman of Taxpayers for Good Government has a great breakdown of the spending problems at Big Hollow. Please read the information and view [...]
In the opinion section of the Daily Herald they pretty much accept the education line about higher ACT scores. They did have some concerns about gaps with blacks and Hispanics.
Here in Illinois, the story is the same, and here in Illinois, the increase is particularly significant. That’s because Illinois is one of only two [...]
Lincolnshire District 103 is heading toward a referendum. The official vote comes at the next school board meeting. A so called community group named “Voices of 103†has been convinced by the district it needs the money.
Larry Rivkin, who spoke for the community group, called Voices of 103, said a referendum should be [...]
There was an interesting letter to the editor from Rosemary Borzymin the Daily Herald today. It appears to be from a teacher rebutting a July 23rd column of Mr. Navarrette. There are several excerpts that I want to explore more.
It is obvious he has never spent a day in a modern classroom with [...]
Please forgive the light blogging lately. My family comes first before blogging and life has been very chaotic the past month. There has been a surgery, a kidney stone and an emergency trip back to my hometown to visit my father who was critically ill. Everyone is now doing better, although my [...]
Did you know there are currently 260,000 Chicago Public School students who are eligible for a transfer to a different school? Did you also know that only 8200 of them have a chance at the 500 slots available at the top performing schools?
But the odds aren’t good for getting a slot. There are 8,200 [...]
I found this interesting letter in the Daily Herald this morning. It was asking about all the fees being paid to Libertyville High School District 128 in light of the taxes already being paid to the district.
Wondering about those Dist. 128 fees
I’m curious to know if you Libertyville District 128 parents believe we shouldn’t [...]
When can the end of Social Promotion be a bad thing? When it is exploited to shows higher scores on NCLB.
Most people in the public never question what the education system does. They believe the people who work there would only do what is best for the children. This perception [...]
