Are you tired of the ever increasing property taxes? Tonight you have an opportunity to speak out at a special meeting of the District 46 school Board. The board will be reviewing their projected budget shortfall and voting on their tax levy increase. Yes, that is correct, an increase in their levy. [...]
There is a website that allows students and parents to rate their teachers. It is RateMyTeachers.com. Here are direct links to Grayslake schools that had a listing:
Avon
Grayslake Middle School
Meadowview
Grayslake High School
Illinois Schools
The article from the Chicago Sun-Times is highlighting the need for Recess and other activities in Chicago Public Schools. In doing so they pointed out how the kids came up with a cost-free way to have after school programs to help the kids stay off the streets.
They asked parents to volunteer to lead after-school [...]
The Lake County Assessors Office is holding its annual property assessment forums and help centers. In fact their are tax help centers open tonight from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm at the College of Lake COunty Southlake Education Center in Vernon Hills and the University Center of Lake County. See the Assessor website for more [...]
As I mentioned in my post entitled “Taxing U and Me Into Extenction Why?“, Lake County has the highest taxes in the Midwest. Since it is Levy time again I dediced to make a video that show how schools and other taxing bodies act like children when it comes to money. They basically [...]
The title of this post comes from the sign below. It is being displayed on a Grayslake business and is very timely.
There are many people complaining about how much there assessments have risen this year. They know this means their taxes will go up in the spring. I have heard many times [...]
I have finally been able to catch up on loading the board packets for both District 127 and District 46 school board meetings. You can review them yourself from the document links at D127News.com and D46News.com.
It is a shame that a taxpayer has to continually FOIA these documents and provide them to [...]
If you or someone you know is interested in joining the Grayslake High school District 127 School Board the specifics can be found at the district website or in the announcement below which was emailed to me by district staff.
The District 127 Board of Education is announcing a vacancy on the Board.
The Board of Education [...]
The letter to the editor below is how one Naperville District 203 resident believes the requirements are for a person to fill their vacant seat.
Fiscal watchdogs need not apply
Wanted: malleable school board member to fill recent vacancy.
With an operating budget exceeding $200 million and declining student enrollment, District 203 is now taking applications from people [...]
There is a story and an editorial in the Lakeland Journal this week that the residents of Grayslake High School District 127 should be aware of. The story is on the competitive “not so competive” bidding proccess for the Synthetic turf to be put in at Grayslake Central. [Emphasis mine]
GRAYSLAKE – District [...]
UPDATE: Write-in votes have been tallied and posted at the County Clerk’s website. County Clerk Williard Helander replied to my email this evening to notify me of this. Douglas Nerge won the write-in vote for the fourth spot on the D127 School Board. See the updated results below.
These are still unofficial [...]
I recieved an email from Grayslake High School District 127 write-in candidate, Cris Tajnai (excerpt below).
Next Tuesday, April 17, 2007 is VOTING DAY. I just want to let you know that I am a write-in candidate for the High School District 127 board election this coming Tuesday. Please write-in my name if you [...]
I’m sure some of you remember last year the D127 board claiming they did not approve anything extravagant in the Master Facilities plan even though it included synthetic turf. Well, now we find out how extravagant that decision was. The News-Sun has written an article about how the board is now balking [...]
I have finally scanned in the documentation for the Energy contracts/agreements from both D127 and D46. I did not receive any bid documents for any other bids, meaning they no-bid the contracts and awarded them directly to the Energy Consortium. You can read the documents at the following links:
D46 Communication with IEC
IEC True [...]
The Grayslake High School District 127 approved the levies as presented at a special meeting this morning. Mr. McClain was absent, but all present board members voted to approve them.
The levies as presented asked for a 30% increase over last year. However, because of the tax cap they will not receive that much [...]
I have confirmed that Grayslake High School District 127 will be holding a special school board meeting on Tuesday, December 26th at 10 am. This meeting will be held at the district offices at Grayslake Central High School on Lake Street in Grayslake. I will have the proposed levies tomorrow and will post [...]
The local schools districts of Milburn, Woodland and Grayslake High School have been fighting to stop the proposed TIF planned by the Village of Lindenhurst. Below is an article from the Daily Herald about the continuing effort. There will be a meeting about this Monday night at Grayslake North at 7pm. If [...]
Now that this election cycle is over is it time to start looking ahead at the school board elections next spring for both District 46 and District 127. These will be held April 17th to be exact. I’ll run through a few question and answers.
Why do we need to think about them when [...]
I have noticed lately that the focus of this blog has been growing wider. Because of that, my focus on the local school districts here in Grayslake has suffered. I have finally done something about that. I have completed and am annoucing 2 new websites. To focus on Grayslake Elementaty Distirct [...]
The Grayslake Highschool District 127 Teachers and Staff agreed to a 5 year contract last week. The only nubmers given in the paper are a 2.25% raise each year.
GRAYSLAKE — Parents and taxpayers of Grayslake Community High School District 127 students can look forward to five years of harmonious teacher-support staff labor relations following [...]
The annual See at the Pole event is Wednesday, Sept. 27th at both the Grayslake Middle School and Grayslake High School. If you have never heard of See at the Pole here is an excerpt from their website.
See You at the Poleâ„¢ is a student-initiated, student organized, and student-led event. That means this is [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Schools skeptical of tax break plan is the article title for this Daily Herald story about how Grayslake High School District 127 and Grayslake Elementary District 46 feel about the proposed Property Tax Abatement. This was discussed at the District 46 school board meeting last night.
Grayslake school leaders aren’t yet ready to sign off [...]
The News-Sun has this story about how Grayslake Highs School students will not be able to buy candy at the school starting this fall.
Don’t expect to find any candy for sale at either school. The district’s Wellness Committee decided it’s not good for your health.
The committee has recommended candy sales should be eliminated from the [...]
The following Letter to the Editor of the Daily Herald can apply to every school district who has and will pass a referendum until the law is changed to prevent this abuse. Another school in Lake County appears to have exceeded the amount promised to the voters. [Emphasis Mine]
What happened to promise of [...]
The News-Sun and the Daily Herald both have new articles about Grayslake trying to get the school districts in the area to abate bonds to help attract businesses to the Central Range Project. I am also glad to see others finally discussing this. I first mentioned this back in February.
The subject came up [...]
Tom Meskel, Grayslake High School 127 School Board Member, breifed other members on what he learned at the NSBA conference in Chicago last month.
GRAYSLAKE — Trustee Tom Meskel attended the annual meeting of the National School Board Association at Chicago’s McCormick Place last month and found that many of the problems facing Illinois school boards [...]
