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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Board Does 'Heavy Lifting' on District 36 Goals

Approval of $41 million budget is among issues tackled during session on Winnetka schools.

District 36 board members came to a preliminary agreement on Winnetka public schools’ 2011-2012 goals and approved a nearly $41 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year on Monday. The continued goal-setting discussion picked up where members left off and ended with a consensus on the six broad goal categories and subgoal projections drafted for the district's schools. Earlier: Goal Discussion Procedes Slowly in District 36 Swift Goals Setting The last meeting’s lengthy and tense debate focused mostly on the top goals of curriculum, instruction and assessment. A discussion on the No. 2 goals of metrics and reporting was tabled. But this time around, board members breezed through the remaining goals of communication, human resources, …

Joanne Price-Lester

7:12 pm on Thursday, September 29, 2011

I enjoyed reading this article...very informative~!!!   more ›

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Goal Discussion Procedes Slowly in District 36

Winnetka District 36 School Board hashed out chief goals in special meeting on Tuesday.

Tense discourse restricted District 36 board members to discuss only one of six tentatively-drafted goals categories for Winnetka Public School’s 2011-2012 academic calendar year on Monday. Monday's two-and-a-half hour special public session held at the Carleton Wasburne Resource Center focused on determining clear definitions for the first of these goals – curriculum, instruction and assessment, all of which are part of goal number one. It was a continuation of discussion from the last board meeting. Earlier: District 36 Discuss Board Composition “I have not seen us have goals put together in a report like this and have something that would be accountable to the community and the public,” said Dr. Thomas Hagerman, Superintendent of …

Joanne Price-Lester

1:34 pm on Tuesday, September 13, 2011

a very well written and informative story~~   more ›

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