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A superintendent
resigns in secrecy
Surprised? I'm not and you wouldn't be
either if you attended more than a few school board meetings these past
two years, had a phone conversation with him regarding last year's
transportation mess or attended a parent advisory committee meeting this
year.
Daily
Herald Editorial, 7/4/10 -
A superintendent resigns in secrecy
Daily Herald Editorial,
7/11/10 - :
Time to gag all school chief secrecy
Stay
tuned . . . FOIAs are due Friday, July 9th.
"Hidden Hill" strange?
Not so much . . .
The Back Door Referendum petition team
found something interesting . . . . Several dozen signatures were
challenged because one of the petition circulators wrote their address
as "Hidden Hill" instead of "Hidden Hills". . . .
Read more
Democracy just
beginning in District 15
. . . an opponent of the bond
plan, declared this week's successful referendum drive
as "a great exercise in democracy." It is that to
a degree, but for District 15 or any school system
contemplating this kind of spending, it's important to
note that the real democracy
is only just getting started.
That is something neither Supt. Lukich
nor anyone else with the best
interests of the community at heart should be
sorry about.
Read and comment on the entire editorial here.
Daily Herald, April 14, 2010
Public should vote on
Dist. 15 plan
. . We could not be more
disappointed in the circumstances that force schools
into such controversial maneuvering, but proposals of
this magnitude require extended community debate.
If District 15 school
board members won't put this to referendum, taxpayers
should do it for them.
Read and comment on the entire
editorial here.
Daily Herald, April 7, 2010
We're taking out a 20
year loan for light bulbs?
Has the world gone
mad?
Just posted on the District 15 website - the list of exactly
$17.2M dollars of capital projects that are supposedly part of
the $27M dollar bond sale for
Working Cash.
Take a look at the list yourself and add up
the numbers - $1.2M for light
bulbs.
The district is proposing that
we take out a 20 year loan at over 5%
for light bulbs.
And isn't it ironic
that they posted the list on
April Fools Day. . .
Don't you think?
A little too ironic...
You just can't make this stuff up
List of projects published April 1st
Headline says it all
Chicago Tribune, 3/25/2010 -
Illinois school budgets at the breaking point
MANY . . have been spending more than they take in
Including District 15 - the Board majority of Chapman,
Ekeberg, Bokor, Babcock and Bloom have NOT
done their jobs to control deficit spending in this district. Soon
after BB&B were sworn in May 2009, they began signing contracts
that they knew this district could not afford
without borrowing money or going to a referendum.
And another thing - how's that increase in staff
morale working out CB&E?
But that's an editorial for another day.
Rebuttal to the District's Q&A
Without the approval of
the Board of Education, the District 15 administration posted a Q&A on
March 18th regarding the resolution approved at last week's meeting to
sell $27M dollars of bonds for a Working Cash fund.
Click here for the
counterpoint to the administration's responses.
And please note - the district CHANGED the
original Q&A today - March 19th.
They removed Question #3
- What are the $17M capital projects the funds will be used for?
Why did they remove that question and their answer - which
was:
"The list of capital projects will be available and posted the
week of March 22."
Your guess
is as good as mine.
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Raising Suspicion
At a time when schools are cutting back, we question
Palatine Township Elementary District 15's decision to give bus
drivers 3 percent raises. This follows pay
increases - albeit small - in the latest teacher contract. For a
fiscally healthy school district that's projected to be
$7 million in the red in five years, we're
wary of this trend.
Daily
Herald, 1/30/10 - Saturday Soapbox
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