school wars

faking vapor

A few weeks ago an anonymous Protonmail user pointed me to this remarkable site. There the author shows that the current superintendent of the Urbana School District, Dr. Ivory-Tatum (not infrequent character on this blog), plagiarized chunks of her thesis, written for her EdD degree defended at the College of Education of the UIUC a […]

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negative growth

Two items on the December 5’th agenda of the USD116 Board caught my attention. Item One: The IGW Architecture presents their Concept-Plan of turning Wiley into the Sixth Grade Center. Here are the basic numbers: They plan to spend essentially all of the $25 million Dr. Ivory-Tatum is borrowing (on our behalf, to be returned

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a board crippled

During the couple of years that I followed the happenings in the Urbana School District, I kept marveling at the success rate of the administration. With one notable exception, they invariably got what they wanted. Want to hire a bozo principal? sure, why not. Fire him, not two years in, for encroaching on the boss’

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