By: Diane Benjamin School Districts used to respect Wednesday nights since churches hold services and/or activities on that night. During Lent my church does so I will not be able to attend. The District is releasing packets now: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/487/District/2850302/BOE_Packet_3.15.23.pdf See PDF page 34 and following. The district is going to quit paying a stipend for […]
Who is attending?
By: Diane Benjamin Tri-Valley held a school board meeting on January 18th. I attended the December meeting: https://blnnews.com/2022/12/20/tri-valley-zero-transparency/ All I asked of them is post all information the school board members see before meetings. They failed again! The agenda was posted, noting else. The Board has retreat schedule for January 31st. The agenda is posted, […]
By: Diane Benjamin At this week meeting the minutes from the November meeting were approved and are now on the school website: https://www.tri-valley3.org/documents/board-meeting-agenda—minutes/399692 NO copies of these minutes were available at the meeting or I would have asked questions. Here’s a big one: What are they buying and why? On the agenda for at least […]
By: Diane Benjamin Agenda: https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/487/District/2640088/Board_Agenda_12.19.2022.docx.pdf Since they aren’t planning on anyone showing up to oppose the Tax Levy, the vote is right after the Public Hearing: Tri-Valley does not post any supporting documents for Board action. Obviously transparency and pesky taxpayers need to be avoided. The only way to know what the District is doing […]
By: Diane Benjamin Town of Normal cancelled Monday’s meeting: No reason given. Maybe they are afraid of Public Comment after the last meeting’s staged lunacy! In case you missed it: https://blnnews.com/2022/12/06/normal-really-doesnt-want-citizens-interfering-in-their-playground/ FYI: Town offices will be closed on the 23rd and the 26th for Christmas. See the calendar here: https://www.normalil.gov/calendar.aspx?view=list&year=2022&month=12&day=23 Remember how Connect Transit buses […]
By: Diane Benjamin Why are many local governments holding tax hearings? Here’s the legal reason: (35 ILCS 200/18-56) Sec. 18-56. Legislative purpose. The purpose of this Law is to require taxing districts to disclose by publication and to hold a public hearing on their intention to adopt an aggregate levy in amounts more than 105% of the amount […]
By: Diane Benjamin I received a tip that before David Mouser left Tri-Valley for his new job as Superintendent of District 87 he got approval allowing the children of employees to attend Tri-Valley even if they don’t live in the District. His wife works at Tri-Valley, the family moved probably because District 87 thought their […]
By: Diane Benjamin Tri-Valley already did this survey, District 87 is today: A student at Tri-Valley told her mom she left questions blank she didn’t want to answer. Good! The survey is called Illinois Youth Survey, it is for grades 8-12. Some other local schools have already taken the survey. Schools had to chose to […]
Stop The Misinformation – There is No Federal Law Mandating Masks on School Buses Illinois (ECWd) – As we continue to expose malfeasance across virtually every level of public service in Illinois, the most recent lifting of mask mandates for a large number of students from the Temporary Restraining Order issued against Governor Pritzker, the […]
By: Diane Benjamin h/t a reader Fieldcrest posted their mask policy on Facebook. I broke their letter into 3 parts and below each posted parts from the letter Tri-Valley wrote. Somebody (Regional Superintendent of Schools?) wrote a template and sent it to schools, the two are way to much alike. I bet you will find […]
Today I heard a story about a school District that is now mask optional because they were part of the lawsuit. There was much jubilation and many smiles yesterday as most of the kids saw their friends faces for the first time in 2 years. I received this announcement today from Tri-Valley. You won’t know […]
By: Diane Benjamin Of course Illinois doesn’t call it that, we’ve seen the School Boards using alternate terms to disguise what is happening. Illinois calls it: Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards In other words, we aren’t a melting pot of Americans. Kids will be educated based on the color of their skin and their […]
I’m going to add emailed comments at the bottom instead of posting them as a comment. By: Diane Benjamin Kids are suffering from closed schools. Parents are suffering and watching their kids fall behind. Meanwhile, Tri-Valley is holding in-person classes while Unit 5 and District 87 are closed. The Unit 5 school board had the […]
By: Diane Benjamin The Illinois Comptroller’s Office has lots of interesting information. Look at this site: http://warehouse.illinoiscomptroller.com/ Virtually every level of Illinois government is required to complete information for this site. Schools must not be required to provide much information. Cities, towns, villages, etc enter much more. I was looking at area schools and noticed […]
Barb Pearson retired from teaching at Tri-Valley about 3 years ago. She wanted the kids to never forget 9/11/2001 so, by herself, she created a memorial to the victims. The school has done this display before, but they now plan to display her work every 5 years. The freshman weren’t born when 9/11 happened! What […]
By: Diane Benjamin Between 2007 and 2015 my total property taxes went up almost 15%. The assessed value went up a little over 9%. That’s EIGHT years. All those rate decreases mean nothing when the assessor thinks your property values went up. Remember the 2008 crash when property values supposedly dropped? For taxes, mine didn’t. […]
July 18, 2013 By Lennie Jarratt During a Common Core Math presentation at Grayslake District 46 last night, the following was stated: But even under the new common core if even if they said 3 * 4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with there answer. Really […]
Today the FlagMan came to Tri-Valley Middle school. Here is a video about the amazing guy behind this:
by Diane Benjamin http://www.ilhonorroll.niu.edu/scripts/awards.asp?searchStr=L&awtype=E&year=2011&so=name Which area schools achieved: 2011 Academic Excellence Awards No Unit 5 Schools No Dist 87 Schools Tri-Valley Elementary Tri-Valley Middle School No Leroy schools Lexington Elementary No Heyworth Schools Olympia West Elementary Ridgeview Elementary Also See: https://blnnews.com/2012/11/12/school-district-comparison-continued/ Also See: https://blnnews.com/2012/11/12/school-district-comparisons/
by Diane Benjamin (continued from previous post) From the Illinois State Board of Education website: http://www.isbe.net/ See the chart below: Close to 50% of all 11th graders in the state are BELOW average in all 3 subjects Dist 87: 52.5% below standards in reading 57% below standards in math 58.6% below standards in science If your […]
by Diane Benjamin From the Illinois State Board of Education website: http://www.isbe.net/ See the chart below: Unit 5 and District 87 have less Administrators per pupil, but the percent spent on Instruction is low. Where is the money going? Graduations rates are way below surrounding districts. Leroy, Lexington, and Ridgeview have high pupil to admin percentages. […]
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