McHenry County Blog

This Prairie Ridge High School blanket was found at a Marengo Settlers Days Parade

Not only will Crystal Lake Central High School hold a lockdown drill next Tuesday, but so will Prairie Ridge.

South High School held one on December 18th and Cary-Grove’s was on January 30th.

Here is the email to parents that was sent out:

Dear Prairie Ridge Parent:

For the past decade, the Prairie Ridge High School staff has participated in code red lockdown drills at least once per year. During this school year, each District 155 school has committed to conducting a lockdown practice with students and staff members so they may be able to more quickly react should an emergency arise. As you may be aware, both Crystal Lake South and Cary-Grove have completed their drills.

Prairie Ridge High School will conduct a lockdown drill on Tuesday, February 12. Please be aware that at this time we will not be enacting any active scenarios or simulated gunfire as a part of this drill. Since we have not previously conducted a drill of this kind with students, we feel it is important to establish the protocols and routines so that all students understand the lockdown procedure. This is the same approach used with Prairie Ridge staff in the early years of practicing lockdowns.

This invaluable practice will take approximately 15-20 minutes, during which time teachers will secure their rooms, draw curtains, and keep their students from traveling throughout the building. Our school resource officer-a member of the Crystal Lake Police Department-will assist us in sweeping the building to ensure that all students are in a secure location during the drill. At the conclusion of the drill, we will return to our normal classroom routine.

I encourage you to discuss the drill with your student both before and after it happens. These drills help our students and staff to be prepared should a crisis occur, but we understand it may cause some students to have increased anxiety. In those cases, your voice may provide reassurances of the drill’s importance. Additionally, we have trained social workers, counselors, and a school psychologist on staff who can speak directly with your child should he or she need any added support.

Should you have any questions, please contact our deans of students, Emory Swinney (eswinney@d1SS.org) or Scott LeMoine (slemoine@d155.org), or any member of the Prairie Ridge administrative team. Together, we can keep our schools a safe place for your child to learn and grow.

Sincerely,

Paul Humpa, Principal
Prairie Ridge High School

After all the hubbub about the lockdown drill at Cary-Grove High School, District 155 is determined to train teachers and students what to do if there is a threat from a deranged person with a gun, but the drill at the second high school, Crystal Lake Central, will proceed sans shots from starter pistols.

Below is the email parents received this morning about next Tuesday’s simulation.

Crystal Lake Central High School.

Dear Parents:

The school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut is a tragic reminder of the importance of school security and safety.

At Crystal Lake Central and across District 155, we make your child’s safety our number one priority each day.

As a parent myself, I can assure you that we understand our responsibility to return your child safely at the end of each day.

While we take many preventative steps to keep our building secure, we also practice our response should a crisis arise.

Some examples include

• meetings with first responders
• a comprehensive crisis response plan
• simulations

In fact, prior to the Connecticut tragedy, we had a building-wide lockdown drill for our staff on October 26, 2012.

My administrative team and I feel it is important to explain to you in advance our next planned simulation drill with students so that you and your child might be able to better understand what will take place on Tuesday, February 12, 2013.

The simulation will take approximately 10-15 minutes during which time teachers will

• secure their rooms
• draw curtains
• keep their students from traveling throughout the buildin

Our school resource officer and additional Crystal Lake Police will assist us in sweeping the building to ensure that all students are in a secure location during the drill.

Please be aware that at this time we will not be enacting any active scenarios or simulated gunfire as a part of this drill.

Since we have not previously conducted a drill of this kind with students, we feel it is important to establish the protocols and routines so that all students understand the lockdown procedure.

At the conclusion of the drill, we will return to our normal classroom routine.

I encourage you to discuss the drill with your student both before it happens and after.

These drills help our students and staff to be prepared should a crisis occur, but because of the timing, it may cause some students to have an emotional reaction. In those cases, your voice may provide reassurances of the drill’s importance.

Additionally, we have trained social workers on staff who can speak directly with your child should he or she need added support.

If you have any questions, please contact me or any member of Central’s administrative team. Together, we can keep our schools a safe place for your child to learn and grow.

Sincerely,

Steve Olson, Principal

Here is the original District 155 email:

INITIAL EMAIL:

Dear parents:

At Cary-Grove and across District 155, we make your child’s safety our number one priority each day.

As a parent, I can assure you that we understand our responsibility to return your child safely at the end of each day.

While we take many preventative steps to keep our building secure, we also practice our response should a crisis arise.

Some examples include

• meetings with first responders,
• a comprehensive crisis response plan, and
• simulations.

We are planning a code red simulation on Wednesday, January 30.  We feel it is important to explain the simulation to you in advance so that you and your child might be able to better understand what will take place on Wednesday.

A Code Yellow ockdown was held in October, 2011.

The simulation will take approximately 15-20 minutes, during which time teachers will secure their rooms, draw curtains, and keep their students from traveling throughout the building.  Please note that we will be firing blanks in the hallway in an effort to provide our teachers and students some familiarity with the sound of gunfire.

Our school resource officer and other members of the Cary Police Department will assist us in sweeping the building to ensure that all students are in a secure location during the drill.

At the conclusion of the drill, we will take some time to process what occurred and then we will return to our normal classroom routine.

I encourage you to discuss the drill with your student both before it happens and after.

These drills help our students and staff to be prepared should a crisis occur, but it may cause some students to have an emotional reaction.

In those cases, your voice may provide reassurances of the drill’s importance.

Additionally, we have trained social workers on staff who can speak directly with your child should he or she need added support.

Should you have any questions, please contact me or any member of the Cary-Grove’s administrative team.  Together, we can keep our school a safe place for your child to learn and grow.

Sincerely,

Jay Sargeant, Principal

FOLLOW-UP EMAIL

Dear Parents,

In response to the small number of concerns we have received about the upcoming Code Red Lockdown practice, I want to clarify some of the details that may not have been clear in my initial email.

Complete information about the drill is available on the Cary-Grove website.

It is important to understand that the drill will start with an announcement over the public address system.

At which time, the teachers will direct the students to their designated safe areas and follow our building protocols.

Administration and law enforcement personnel will be in the hallways to monitor the process.

Once everyone is secure, I will again use the PA system to announce that blanks will be fired by our Student Resource Officer, a member of the Cary Police Department.

We will repeat this twice during the lockdown from two different areas in the building.

After which time, I will use the PA to end the drill.

Following the drill, a discussion will ensue between the students and their classroom teacher.

We will utilize this feedback as a building and police department to assess our security and make any necessary adjustments to our building plan.

Our sole purpose for utilizing the blanks is to fully prepare our students and staff.

Please understand that Cary-Grove High School does not plan safety drills in a vacuum.

Instead, we rely on the expertise of first-responders in order to provide the best training possible to keep our students and staff safe should an actual crisis situation arise.

While we hope that no school will ever hear the sound of gunfire in the future, Cary-Grove High School and the Cary Police want our building to be able to react as quickly as possible in the event that an actual emergency occurs.

As always, our goal is the safety and security of your students while they are here at Cary-Grove High School.  If you should have further questions or concerns about our drill with the Cary Police Department, please do not hesitate to contact one of the administrators in our building.

Respectfully,

Jay Sargeant, Principal
Cary-Grove High School

An email to parents from the Superintendent:

Dear Parents:

As details of the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut continue to be released, people across the country and in District 155 remain shocked by this senseless act of violence. The thoughts of District 155 teachers, staff, and administrators go out to all of those affected by Friday’s events.

In the wake of the tragedy, it is natural for District 155 parents to ask what we are doing to ensure the safety of our students locally. Your children come to our schools each day and you expect that they will return safely after the final bell. We are committed to ensuring this safe return, and we make safety the number one priority each day.

To that end, District 155 has many programs in place to create a secure environment in which your child may learn and thrive. The district has partnerships with local law enforcement agencies that provide the backbone for our students’ safety.

South High School has a new gator.

All four high schools have a school resource officer, a member of the Crystal Lake or Cary Police Department who has specialized training to work in a school. In partnership with this officer, we craft and maintain crisis plans, carry out drills and simulations, investigate rumors and threats, and maintain order throughout the school. Each school has a building-specific crisis plan and these are updated and practiced by staff in cooperation with first-responders.

In addition to partnerships with local police, the district has taken several preventative steps. This includes deterrents like

• our guest check-in system
• controlled points of entry
• the use of keyless access
• video surveillance
• the wearing of visible staff IDs
• security guards at each building, and of course,
• our visible and vigilant staff

The district also engaged an independent analyst to conduct a security audit of our facilities. Further, I have met with area superintendents to coordinate our crisis plans.

Please remember that you and your student can play an important role in school safety. We ask that you comply with the sign-in and ID procedures when you visit the high schools. We encourage you to speak with your child about how he/she can help keep the building safe by reporting visitors who do not have a badge, ensuring that exterior doors close behind them when they exit or enter the building, and informing teachers or administrators about safety concerns that they may have.

Lastly, please be aware that District 155 employs an automated calling system to alert parents should a crisis arise. This is the same system that we use for school closing due to weather. For non-urgent situations like a snow day, the system uses the primary phone number and email address listed in your Skyward Family Access account.

For urgent, crisis situations like a code red lockdown, the system will call and email all parent numbers and addresses listed in your account. Please ensure that this information is current in your Family Access profile. A video tutorial including instructions how to update this information is on the District 155 YouTube page.

Please know that we take all threats and rumors seriously, and we thoroughly investigate each instance with our partners at the police department. Together, we take appropriate action to punish those imposing the threat. Should a threat be deemed viable by community law enforcement agencies, we will contact you.

If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to me or a member of your school’s administrative team.

Finally, I wish you and your family happy holidays. I hope you are able to use winter break to spend time with your children and other loved ones. We look forward to seeing your student when school reopens on January 7, 2013.

Sincerely,

Dr. Johnnie Thomas
Superintendent

Crystal Lake Central High School

Here are the four people whose terms on the Crystal Lake High School Board are up next spring:

• Gary Oberg (Crystal Lake)
• Dave Secrest (Crystal Lake)
• Ann Somers (Cary/Trout Valley)
• Ted Wagner (Cary)

Thus far, Oberg, Sommers, Secrest have filed for re-election.

Those thinking about running need to file a Statement of Economic Interest with the County Clerk and attach its receipt with a staple to one’s petitions and Statement of Candidacy. And, be sure to number the pages.

Almost next to Aldi’s are located the Hampton Apartments on Uteg Street.

A press release has come from the Crystal Lake Police Department concerning the morning activity on Uteg Street.  It follows:

On October 31, 2012, at 9:01 a.m., the Crystal Lake Police were contacted by the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Dispatch Center concerning a troubled individual, who was believed to be calling from within the Crystal Lake City limits.

It was also reported that the caller was armed with a handgun and contemplating suicide.

Working in conjunction with DeKalb County Sheriff’s Dispatch, Crystal Lake Police were able to determine that the subject was visiting the home of a friend in the 200 block of Uteg Street, in Crystal Lake.

Due to the seriousness of this incident, the Crystal Lake Police Department’s Emergency Services Team was activated.  A 10-man response team began to assemble at the corner of Union and 2^nd Court.

Uniformed officers secured a perimeter surrounding the neighborhood to prevent anyone from entering the area.

Once the area was contained, Crystal Lake Police Negotiators made contact with the individual by cellular telephone.

The subject surrendered himself to Police without incident and he was subsequently transported to Woodstock Hospital for an evaluation.

His initial report of being armed was determined to be false.

No injuries were sustained to anyone involved in this incident.

The subject’s identity is not being released due to HIPPA Privacy Rules, which protect the privacy of individuals and any identifiable health issues or information.

A source tells McHenry County Blog that the Hampton Court Apartments on Uteg Street in Crystal Lake were the subject of a lot of police activity this morning.

There was a police blockade of the street.

A SWAT Team was out.

“There are tons of cops and cop vehicles all over the place,” my source emailed at 10:30.

“They have been congregating on Second Street since early morning.

“Uteg St is blocked off from Second to the end of the block on College.”

Elementary School District 47′s Donn Mendoza sent out this message at 11 AM, which seems related to the police activity on Uteg:

Dear District 47 Families:

Please be advised that District 47 was contacted directly at 10:05am today by the Crystal Lake Police Department and informed that they were dealing with a suspicious incident of significance close to the Burger King on Route 14 in Crystal Lake.

Upon hearing this, all District 47 schools were instructed to keep all students and staff indoors and to ensure that the common practice of securing and locking exterior doors remained in effect until further notice.

At 10:35 am, we were informed by the police department that the incident had been taken care of. All District 47 schools were then given approval to resume school activities as they normally would for the remainder of the day.

At 2 PM Crystal Lake Central High School Principal Steve Olson sent the following email:

I am writing to inform you of a situation near Crystal Lake Central that transpired this morning. Crystal Lake Police informed us of a situation in the neighborhood near CLC. Working with our school resource officer, we went into a “code yellow lockdown” while police worked to resolve the issue. In a “code yellow,” students are allowed to move between classes; however, no one is allowed to enter or exit the building. This morning’s situation was resolved by Crystal Lake Police quickly, and we believe that at no time were students in danger.

Please be aware that in the rare instance when situations like this arise, we normally send out an automated phone message and email. Today, however, the situation was resolved quicker than we could send out the automated call. Still, because we believe it is important to keep you informed of experiences that are out of the ordinary for your child, I am contacting you by email.

To ensure that you receive future automated emails and phone messages, please verify that your phone numbers and email address are correct in Skyward Family Access.

I prefer grade school district Superintendent Donn Mendozza’s approach.

A Praairie Ridge High School Band parent was at Marengo Settlers Days Parade.

The Chicago Sun-Times ranked grade schools, middle schools and high schools using average scores on state achievement tests.

The paper’s analysis ranked the percentage of students who met statewide standards.

I scanned the results and found no grade or middle schools from McHenry County on the Top 50 lists for Chicago area schools.

The list’s cut off for grade schools was 79.25%, meaning that all grade schools in McHenry County had more than 20.75% if their students who did not meet state standards.

The middle school cut off was 74.05%. Using similar logic, one could conclude that almost 26% of those attending did not meet state standards.

For high schools, the Top 50 cut off was 63.84%, meaning, it appears to me, that all the rest of high schools had more than 36.2% of their 11th grade students who didn’t meet the standards.

Marengo High Schoool

There were, however, three high schools in McHenry County on the Top 50 Sun-Times list.

There were

• Cary-Grove at 68.2%, ranked 34th in the Chicago area, 40th in the state
• Prairie Ridge in Crystal Lake at 66.26%, ranked 41st in the Chicago area, 53rd in the state
• Marengo, ranked 49th in the Chicago area, 74th in the state.

On its web site, the Marengo High School District says,

“We are #49 and we are the only small school (less than 1000 students) and the only rural school on the list.”

2009-10 School Report Cards show the following costs per student:

• Cary-Grove & Prairie Ridge- $11,844 (District 155 average)
• Marengo – $12,145

Average teacher salaries follow:

• Prairie Ridge & Cary-Grove – $93,574 (District 155 average)
• Marengo – $67,857

A "yellow alert" resulted in a lock down at Cary-Gove High School the day that it was named the top McHenry County high school, based on the percentage passing state tests.

The Cary-Grove High School web page announces that a Halloween prank led to the locking down of Cary-Grove High School.

Anyone with details is invited to share them in the comment section.

Joe Stefani.

Two years ago a 27-year old named Joe Stefani was elected to the Algonquin Library Board.

He used direct mail.

And, he knocked on a lot of doors.

In the meantime, Stefani has gotten a minor league baseball team off the ground in Rockford and served as a Republican Precinct Committeeman in Algonquin.

He has a flare for creating publicity, inviting Wisconsin Democratic Party State Senators to a Saturday, July 16th “Senatorist Night” at the Rockford Foresters’ game. (Those with union cards get in free.) A couple of the Senate Democrats may actually come. (Don’t forget that Rockford’s media market goes into Wisconsin.)

The precincts in Algonquin Township. Joe Stefani served as GOP Committeeman in Algonquin 6 on the east side of the Fox River. Click to enlarge the map.

2009 wasn’t the first time the Cary-Grove High School graduate ran for office. In 2005 he ran for the District 155 School Board, placing second in a two-way race to Karen Whitman.

Take a look at the precinct totals in Fox River Grove, where he grew up, and Cary where classmates’ families lived. They are respectable.

The baseball team is doing well and Stefani is still interested in the public arena.

Might he be a candidate for something in 2012?

How about the 52nd state representative district?

The newly-configured district has Algonquin, Cary and Fox River Grove in it. I haven’t seen a county-by-county breakdown, so I don’t know what percentages of the GOP primary vote is in Cook, Kane, Lake and McHenry Counties. But there is a lot of area located in McHenry County.

As I have mentioned previously, I expect McHenry County Board member Donna Kurtz to seek the seat, even though not a lot of her District 2 is in the district which seems to have been drawn for the deceased Mark Beaubien. Odds are good she will be the only pro-choice candidate, but, regardless, with her and her mother former State Rep. Rosemary Kurtz’ relationship with Personal PAC, she will receive the group’s endorsement and voter identification and turnout assistance.

The key to understanding the county remap alernatives below.

Lots of moneyed folk live in the Barringtons, of course.

A lot ran in the 8th congressional district Republican primary in 2010. All were fiscal conservatives and all but one was pro-life.

Someone like Stefani might decide to run for County Board in District 1.

Regardless of how which version of the map is found acceptable by the McHenry County Board, someone with a political base in both Algonquin and the Cary-Fox River Grove area would be a formidable candidate.

Especially, if he or she was willing to knock on doors.

The maps being considered by the County Board for Districts 1 and 2 are below. Stefani might be a candidate in District 1.

The original committee map and the one apparently worked out in a meeting with County Board Chairman Ken Koehler, Anna May Miller, Marc Munaretto, John Jung and Nick Provenzano which resembled a continuing game of draw poker with no new cards can be seen here.

Larry Snow

“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.  It is from Executive Director Dick Ingram of Teachers’ Retirement System.)

The article was published in “The Champion” with this teaser:

“82,981 of 132,502 Illinois Teachers Pay Nothing or Little into Their Pensions“

That’s 63% of all teachers in Illinois.

The State Journal-Register is reporting that State Rep. Kevin McCarthy (D-Orland Park) is promoting a bill where state and local governments would all pay six percent of payroll toward employee pensions.

In a revealing sentence in reporter Chris Wetterich’s article, he writes,

“What’s unclear is how much more employees themselves would have to pay.“

Because no one has done the research except, I believe, the Illinois Education Association and Snow, how much extra teachers would have to pay if their so-called contribution rate was raised from 9.4% to 13.77% is a really good question.

While not covering every school district in Illinois, Snow did research the teachers’ contracts for all of the large school districts (by law all are supposed to be on the internet) in order to find out how much teachers pay in order to get a “full 75 percent pension after working only 27 years.” He points out, “Most adults work for 27 years before they turn age 50.”

As way of background, Snow notes that teachers are not in the Social Security System and, therefore, are not forced to pay Social Security taxes.

“Ordinary workers get hit with a 6.2 percent deduction for Social Security,” Snow writes. “It’s a deduction they have to pay federal and state income taxes on.

“Democrats gave teachers a huge loophole of not paying income taxes on any of their pension deductions” he continues. “This enormous no-tax handout to teachers amounts to billions of dollars each year.”

Snow’s research leads him to this conclusion:

“Over 51,000 of the total 132,502 teachers in Illinois contribute nothing from their K-12 paychecks into their pensions. Illinois law says it is to be 9.4 percent.

“About an additional 32,000 teachers pay little into their pensions. It is 1.81 percent to be precise for these 31,956 teachers.“

How many teachers pay not a dime toward their retirement?

51,025 teachers in 186 school districts pay nothing for retirement benefits.

They “don’t pay a penny into the 9.4 percent called out by Illinois law.

“There are a total of 868 districts in Illinois.

“The pay-zero teachers listed are 39 percent of all teachers in Illinois,” Snow reveals.

No agency in state government seems to keep track of this information.

Not the Downstate Teachers Retirement Fund, which boldly and incorrectly claims,

“Active TRS members are required to contribute 9.4 percent of their creditable earnings each year…”

The State Board of Education doesn’t keep track either.

My guess is that only the Illinois Education Association has a matrix showing what school districts have given what benefits in contract negotiations.

Snow discovered this about Lockport:

“…on page 14 of the Lockport Township HS 205 teachers contract it reads:

1. The Board will pay the current level of retirement contribution to the Teachers Retirement System of Illinois.”
2. It is expressly understood that figures appearing on this salary schedule include a sum equal to the current level of TRS contribution of the base salary of each Teacher which is, in fact, payable to the Teachers’ Retirement System on the Teacher’s behalf.”

“The ISBE report shows this board paying nothing. A Democrat bureaucracy doesn’t check the teachers contracts to see if what is reported, matches what’s in writing.”

And, if legislation is passed requiring 4.37 percentage points more, how long do you think it will take Lockport taxpayers to pick up the difference?

Given that local teachers’ unions pretty much control school boards wherever they are elected (read everywhere but Chicago), my guess is will be on the top of the collective bargaining list.

Do you wonder if Rep. McCarthy knows that?

Is his proposal just a setting up local taxpayers for an even bigger fall?

Five years from now will 39% of teachers still be paying nothing for their pensions?

Even better for teachers is that this pension payment ups their pension payments.

Take a look at the chart below.  Chances are your school district is on it.

Chart of Pension Contributions by 82,981 District Teachers of 132,502 Total Illinois K-12 Teachers

Name of District	No. of Teachers	Percent of Pension Contributed by Teachers
Thornton Twp 205	428	Zero
Proviso 209	281	Zero
Waukegan 60	1,098	Zero
Morton 201	455	Zero
Kankakee 111	348	Zero
Joliet 204	340	Zero
Round Lake 116	387	Zero
Rockford	1,843	Zero
Decatur 61	454	Zero
Crete Monee	340	Zero
Danville 118	382	Zero
Valley View 365	1,068	Zero
Aurora West 129	706	Zero
East Peoria 309	69	Zero
Galesburg	281	Zero
Bremen 228	313	Zero
Freeport	317	Zero
Leyden 212	219	Zero
Elgin U-46	2,332	Zero
Rock Island	388	Zero
Mattoon	225	Zero
Collinsville	394	Zero
Massac 1	143	Zero
Sterling	219	Zero
Belvidere	531	Zero
Quincy	436	Zero
Dixon	179	Zero
West Chicago	248	Zero
Cook County 130	289	Zero
Cicero 99	738	Zero
Joliet 86	617	Zero
Harvey 152	163	Zero
Crystal Lake 155	412	Zero
Crystal Lake 47	564	Zero
Wheeling 21	489	Zero
Champaign 4	717	Zero
United CUSD 304	68	Zero
Riverdale 100	76	Zero
Reed Custer 255	114	Zero
Wilmington 209U	84	Zero
United Township 30	90	Zero
Summit Hill 161	213	Zero
Plainfield	1,695	Zero
Schiller Park 81	98	Zero
Dolton 149	176	Zero
Township 211 Palatine	799	Zero
Ball Chatham 5	248	Zero
Taylorville 3	152	Zero
Williamsville 15	81	Zero
Harrisburg 3	130	Zero
Belleville 201	281	Zero
Dupo 196	76	Zero
O’Fallon 203	145	Zero
O’Fallon 90	207	Zero
Rochester 3A	142	Zero
Pekin 108	248	Zero
Morton 709	175	Zero
New Lenox 122	287	Zero
Frankfort 157	158	Zero
Marion 2	219	Zero
Carterville 5	110	Zero
Kinnikinnick 131	122	Zero
Tolono 7	116	Zero
Mahomet-Seymour 3	161	Zero
Champaign 4	717	Zero
Urbana	346	Zero
Charleston 1	180	Zero
Park Ridge 64	319	Zero
Evanston 202	222	Zero
Maine HSD 207	508	Zero
Arlington Heights 214	753	Zero
Niles 219	350	Zero
Berkeley 87	165	Zero
Berwyn South	263	Zero
Lyons 204	239	Zero
Lemont 113	144	Zero
Palatine 15	713	Zero
Schaumburg 54	1,003	Zero
Oak Lawn 123	203	Zero
Oak Lawn 229	114	Zero
CHSD 230 Orland Park	519	Zero
Argo 217	111	Zero
Homewood 233	174	Zero
Genoa 424	137	Zero
Sycamore 427	231	Zero
Dekalb 428	362	Zero
Lombard 44	216	Zero
Downers Grove 58	277	Zero
Hinsdale 86	296	Zero
Elmhurst 205	538	Zero
Naperville 203	1,063	Zero
Effingham 40	176	Zero
Canton Union 66	175	Zero
Morris 54	61	Zero
Morris 101	50	Zero
Coal City 1	138	Zero
Jersey 100	164	Zero
Central CUSD 301	224	Zero
Kaneland 302	275	Zero
St. Charles 303	880	Zero
Cahokia	298	0.4
Chicago Public Schools	23,219	2
Peoria 150	988	0.4
Springfield	1,105	0.4
Moline 40	461	0.4
Harvard	149	0.87
Dolton 148	236	1.4
Belleville 118	228	0.4
Pekin 303	125	0.4
Hononegah 207	118	0.4
Arlington Heights 59	444	3
Leyden 212	219	0.4
Summit 104	103	0.4
Palos 118	130	0.4
CHSD 219 Orland Park	519	0.4
Bensenville 2	145	1.4
DuPage 88	266	0.4
CHSD 94	122	0.9
CUSD 300	1,189	4.4
Hawthorn 73	253	1.4
Lake Forest 115	132	0.4
Wauconda 118	273	0.4
Johnsburg 12	158	0.4
Cary 26	192	4.9
Woodstock 200	385	1.4
Keeneyville 20	107	0.4
Winnebago 323	117	0.4
LaSalle-Peru Twp. 120	88	0.7
Prairie-Hills 144	187	0.4
Geneva 304	367	Zero
Herscher 2	126	Zero
Manteno 5	160	Zero
Bourbonnais 53	160	Zero
Bradley 61	103	Zero
Bradley Bourbonnais 307	114	Zero
Momence 1	88	Zero
Yorkville 115	329	Zero
Plano 88	154	Zero
Oswego 308	827	Zero
Streator 44	132	Zero
Ottawa 141	140	Zero
Ottawa 140	102	Zero
Glenview 34	343	Zero
Zion 6	177	Zero
Grayslake 46	266	Zero
Elmwood Park 401	181	Zero
Libertyville 70	159	Zero
North Shore 112	374	Zero
HSD 113 Highland Park	249	Zero
Grant 124	91	Zero
Zion-Benton 126	156	Zero
Evanston 65	547	Zero
Grayslake 127	187	Zero
Meridian 15	64	Zero
Mt. Zion 3	133	Zero
Edwardsville 7	480	Zero
Alton 11	467	Zero
Macomb 185	130	Zero
McHenry 15	282	Zero
McHenry 156	158	Zero
Nippersink 2	92	Zero
Columbia 4	111	Zero
Waterloo 5	166	Zero
Hillsboro 3	114	Zero
Meridian 223	113	Zero
Illinois Valley Central 321	139	Zero
Carbondale 165	76	Zero
Carbondale 95	105	Zero
Riverton 14	85	Zero
Auburn 10	90	Zero
Pawnee 11	47	Zero
Panhandle 2	35	Zero
Sullivan 300	75	Zero
Centralia 135	93	Zero
Litchfield 12	83	Zero
Harlem 122	505	Zero
Granite City 9	617	Zero
Princeton 115	86	Zero
Princeton 500	43	Zero
Bond County 2	120	Zero
Duquoin CUSD 300	101	Zero
Rocton 140	102	Zero
Rochelle Twp. HSD 212	71	Zero
Rochelle CCSD 231	131	Zero
Byron 226	127	Zero
Oregon 220	104	Zero
Farmington Central 265	85	Zero
Porta 202	75	Zero
River Bend 2	71	Zero
Red Bud 132	73	Zero
Sparta 140	105	Zero
Southwestern 9	107	Zero
Staunton 6	87	Zero
Gillespie 7	81	Zero
Hamilton County 10	83	Zero
Midwest Central 191	85	Zero
Tuscola 301	86	Zero
West Carroll 314	99	Zero
Oakwood 76	64	Zero
Hoopeston 11	94	Zero
Westville 2	80	Zero
Beardstown 15	98	Zero
El Paso-Gridley 11	99	Zero
Murphysboro 186	137	Zero
Monticello 25	111	Zero
Paris-Union 95	74	Zero
Mt. Vernon Twp. 210	80	Zero
Mt. Vernon 80	109	Zero
Jasper County 1	101	Zero
Steger 194	128	Zero
Calumet City 155	77	Zero
North Boone 200	116	Zero
CCSD 93 Carol Stream	294	Zero
East Maine SD 63	254	Zero
Lockport Township HS 205	205	Zero
Above Teachers Total	82,981