“While Democrats say Teachers ‘Have Kept Their Part of the Deal?’“ is the title of an April 5, 2011, article by former Huntley School District 158 Board member Larry Snow. (The quote was in the Chicago Tribune Marcy 31, 2011. … Continue reading
At the Cary Grade School District’s request, State Rep. Pam Althoff is attempting to gain permission to put an advisory referendum on the ballot that would include precincts outside the school district’s boundaries. Illinois Statehouse News has posted a short … Continue reading
School districts take most of our property tax dollars. It is fair to compare unit districts to unit districts. These are how all schools were originally. During the run-up to the 1870 Constitutional Convention, there was tremendous borrowing by local … Continue reading
McHenry County Blog has surveyed school districts with major presences in McHenry County and discovered that union employees paid $3.8 million in dues during calendar year 2010. The total amount was $3,825,572. Contracts are typically for more than one year … Continue reading
Governor Pat Quinn thinks that consolidating schools will save big money because fewer administrators would be required. Reading the Daily Herald article, I notice that no mention is made of equalizing up elementary school teacher salaries to the level paid … Continue reading
Only five elementary school districts in McHenry County have contests for school board. Two are in the southwest corner, one in the northeast corner and two in the southeastern part of the county. In Richmond-Spring Grove (Nippersink) Grade School District … Continue reading
The filing has just ended, but lots of grade school board candidates in McHenry County are assured of election. Here at Election Central, McHenry County Blog declares the fifteen candidates listed below elected. In Fox River Grove Grade School District … Continue reading
Illinois Democrats run the White House and Federal government. From President Obama to David Axelrod to Rahm Emanuel, they are in control. My list doesn’t include lesser known Valerie Jarrett and higher profile Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education and former … Continue reading
In lawyer-like language what I have written above is pretty much what the Soar to Higher—finally a legally register—Foundation wrote Cary Grade School District 26. Well, most of it. There is a little ridicule. More to follow. And, by the … Continue reading
Well, glory be. Former School Board President and current spouse of school board member and front man for the Soar to Higher Heights Foundation David Ruelle now admits to the Daily Herald that none of the promised $4.3 million is … Continue reading
Would you irreversibly agree to spend over 4 million dollars and in return people might show you they have $4 million that could pay for such spending? I believe this is what is called a “Fool’s Proposal.” You give and … Continue reading
The Soar to Higher Heights Foundation is being contacted by the Charitable Trusts Division of the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, according to press officer Robyn Ziegler. McHenry County Blog checked last week as to whether the foundation had registered with … Continue reading
Everyone who has their boat moored to reality knows that Cary Grade School District 26’s financial problems have been caused by a teachers’ contract the district can’t afford. They have teacher salaries that are comparatively out of sight, and benefits … Continue reading
It is always interesting to see how the journalists and editors in the local newspapers describe something and then compare such descriptions with source documents. Here’s how the people who made their proposal to the Cary 26 school board described … Continue reading
The group calling itself “Soar to Higher Heights Foundation,” which admits that it not yet a real foundation, issued the following at the Cary District 26 Grade School meeting earlier this week. Any of the images can be enlarged by … Continue reading
The headline above sums up what a group in Cary 26 called the “Soar to Higher Heights Foundation” is or appears to be proposing. Rather than make a $4.3 million donation and trust the school board to do what’s best … Continue reading
Know a public official who needs some training in the requirements of the Open Meetings Act? Cary Grade School District 26 is hosting the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office on Monday night and you as a citizen and any elected … Continue reading
