Yesterday, the first half of a report was published on what happened on the special ed front at the parents advisory committee meeting and the subsequent school board meeting. What follows, concludes that report. Board member Aileen Seedorf questioned a … Continue reading
Category Archives: Huntley School District 158
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Door-to-door leafleting. Pretty basic politics. And some Special Education Moms were doing it this afternoon in neighborhoods around town. With a photo of Superintendent John Burkey, taken by yours truly, the broadside’s headline was Our Superintendent wants special ed money … Continue reading
This is the firth and final installment of a too long article about the discussion of spending $800,000 of special ed money allocated to Huntley School District 158 this year as a result of the Federal stimulus program. The other … Continue reading
This is the third part of a rather exhaustive article about what happened at last Thursday’s Huntley School District 158 school board meeting concerning how the district is going to spend the first half of a $1.6 million grant from … Continue reading
Yesterday, McHenry County Blog began a rather exhaustive report on Thursday night’s meeting of the Huntley School District 158 school board meeting on how to spend Federal Stimulus money earmarked for special education. Today we continue the comments made by … Continue reading
Huntley School District 158 Special Ed Moms poured in on during the public comment time before the school board Committee of the Whole meeting Thursday night. By the time that part of the meeting was over at 11:15, there was … Continue reading
We would like to think government employees wouldn’t take money away from special ed children and use it for regular education. Especially when money is specifically designated for special ed use. Even if the Federal law allows such a diversion … Continue reading
I went to one of the town hall meetings put on by Huntley School District 158 in mid-July. Discussed were how the extra federal dollars for special ed from the Federal ARRA Stimulus Funds should be spent. Parents had all … Continue reading
Are higher salaries and larger benefits producing higher or lower student test scores? Let’s look at Huntley, where scores were made public in last Thursday’s school board packet. In Huntley School District 158, you will remember there was a teacher’s … Continue reading
Official web site posting of the numbers in the Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) report should be made this month. The numbers, however, have been made pubic in the Huntley School District 158 Board Packet. (Go to the electronic page 106.) … Continue reading
I just got charged $5 apiece for two DVD’s of the Crystal Lake City Council meeting last spring when the board voted to hike the city sales tax by 75%. Compare that to Huntley School District 158’s providing the first … Continue reading
Someone in Huntley School District 158 hired an attorney specializing in Special Ed in July. I didn’t see any board vote on the issue. Did you? At the Special Ed Parents Advisory meeting last night, attorney Teri Engler from the … Continue reading
A location needs two things to support windmills: Wind High power lines I don’t know if there is adequate wind blowing past the Huntley School District 158 Administrative Building, but there are certainly high power lines. Electric company Com Ed, … Continue reading
On any three-day weekend, readership starts slacking off after noon on Friday. Just to make it easy for you to find stories you might want to read on this blog that does not go to sleep on weekends, here are … Continue reading
District 158 administrators were ticked. What did board member Aileen Seedorf ask for that got administrators up in a huff? At the last meeting, she asked for a copy of the ice melt bid spec to read when administrators recommended … Continue reading
I spent way too much time on ice melt bidding for Huntley School District 158 this week. I entitled the article “Second Chances.” What I did not know when I wrote it is that TruGreen won the bid last year. … Continue reading
At the end of the Huntley District 158 school Board meeting, I asked Superintendent John Burkey if President Obama’s speech was going to be shown his students. His answer was succinct: “Nope.” A bit different than what is happening in … Continue reading
I’ve been trying to find out if Huntley School District 158 Superintendent John Burkey takes his vacation. The article you see is what piqued my interest. It said Burkey was in China for eight days. It sparked this article: Junket … Continue reading
My son was five or six and had done something egregious in the car. I had admonished him. We were listening to Veggie Tale Christian songs and had just parked at Borders. He was teary-eyed, if not sobbing. The song … Continue reading
I went to the Special Ed town hall meeting with school board members July 14th in Huntley District 158. There I received this handout which you can see online or just click to enlarge the image above. It’s on page … Continue reading