usd116 board

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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new board, quo vadis?

Champaign’s County clerk’s website lists the candidates for the Urbana School District’s Board of Education as: • Benjamin Baxley – Subdistrict 7• Paul Poulosky – Subdistrict 5• Ravishankar Hasanadka – Subdistrict 2• Citlaly Yuritzi Stanton – Subdistrict 1• Sheri Langendorf – Subdistrict 3• Torionna L. Exum – Subdistrict 6 We see three old names (Ms.

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