Tag: Illinois Report Card

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No prosecution, the Unexceptional Rewarded

By: Diane Benjamin In case you forgot, review these stories. The McLean County Public Schools all wanted the 1% Sales Tax to pass, all used the same talking points, and all pointed to the same website to “inform” voters. https://www.wglt.org/local-news/2025-02-11/complaints-filed-over-alleged-political-advocacy-on-school-sales-tax-informational-website https://blnnews.com/2025/07/18/voter-deception-the-1-sales-tax-controversy/ Copied from an email to Dean Fletcher who filed one of the complaints: My […]

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Why can’t 3rd graders read? Don’t Blame COVID

By: Diane Benjamin More on this story: https://blnnews.com/2025/12/04/can-your-3rd-grader-read-likely-no-in-public-school/ The 3rd graders tested last spring weren’t affected by school closings during COVID. They weren’t old enough to be in school. They were in: 3rd grade – 2024/2025 2nd grade – 2023/2024 1st grade – 2022/2023 Kindergarten – 2021/2022 Illinois schools were closed for COVID in March […]

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Normal Community Report Card

By: Diane Benjamin Last night I had a comment from a person I didn’t post. The writer claimed Matt Chapman was a great teacher who helped a son a lot. This person also stated Chapman wears shirts with political messages to spur classroom discussions. That person failed to notice not every student at NCHS is […]

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Is District 87 indoctrinating instead of teaching?

By: Diane Benjamin See the Illinois Report Card for District 87 Bloomington High School: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/School.aspx?source=trends&Schoolid=170640870250001 If the goal is education they flunked. 77% graduate anyway. The District 87 website has many curriculum links. This is one for English: https://www.district87.org/o/bhs/documents/faculty-%26-staff/english/english-syllabi/455251 This is on the list, Freshman Literature and Composition: Freshman_Lit_Comp_23-24_-_BHS.pdf . Night is a biography of […]

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Would you send your kids to this school?

By: Diane Benjamin Being below State standards is pretty difficult to accomplish, this district is way below. The dark green is State: . Learning the basics is evidently not required for graduation: . Community Colleges are forced to teach the graduates of this school because the District didn’t: . The teachers can’t be blamed because […]

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DEI – Unit 5 (Diversity Equity Inclusion)

By: Diane Benjamin Illinois must not care if it loses federal funding. The state pushes DEI in schools, and Unit 5 is happy to comply. I have a lot more information, thanks to a FOIA request. Remember when teachers taught the basics and we were number one in the world for education? Looking at these […]

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Tri-Valley data:

By: Diane Benjamin The information below comes from 2 websites: Illinois School Report Card: https://www.illinoisreportcard.com/district.aspx?source=studentcharacteristics&source2=enrollment&Districtid=17064003026 Open the Books: https://www.openthebooks.com/members/employer-detail/?Id=71090&tab=1&Year_C=2021 Both have tons of other information not detailed below! Quick lesson on using OpenTheBooks.com Click on Menu – LEFT SIDE – below the scrolling reports. Choose Illinois – Data is available for all levels of government. […]

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High School comparisons

By: Diane Benjamin Below is a summary of stats taken from the Illinois Report Card on schools:  https://illinoisreportcard.com/search.aspx?address=Bloomington&miles=5 This is area High Schools only.  All the data is from the pics below except class size, that was taken from another page. State Averages :  Ready for the Next Level:    33% College Ready:   46% . […]

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Have you checked your kids school?

By: Diane Benjamin The below is from the Illinois Report Card website:  https://illinoisreportcard.com/Default.aspx This report only compares area Elementary Schools.  Click below to enlarge – Where does the data  come from?   If this doesn’t start a conversation, nothing will. Screen shots from the website are below.  The chart shows the percentage of kids ready […]