Monday, April 1, 2013
Margaret McGrath is running against Eldon Burk, Mary Childers, Jin Lee, Carla Owen, Jeffrey Spero and Sean Story for Maine Township High School District 207’s Board of Education.
The following information was provided by Margaret McGrath. Patch provides a platform for candidates to share their messages, and does not give endorsements. To share your message with readers for free, add it to the Local Voices section on Patch. Name: Margaret C. McGrath Position sought: Maine Township High School District 207 Board of Education, four-year term. Campaign contact information. Please include any or all of the following: website, email address, phone number, Facebook page, Twitter account, mailing address, etc. Email: margaret.c.mcgrath@gmail.com Age: 54 Family Include as much info as you like (names, ages, number of children, etc.): Married, three children. Two Maine South High School graduates and one current Maine South…
Carla Owen is running against Eldon Burk, Mary Childers, Jin Lee, Margaret McGrath, Jeffrey Spero and Sean Story for Maine Township High School District 207’s Board of Education.
The following information was provided by Carla Owen. Patch provides a platform for candidates to share their messages, and does not give endorsements. To share your message with readers for free, add it to the Local Voices section on Patch. Name: Carla R. Owen Position sought: Maine Township High School District 207 Board of Education, four-year term. Campaign contact information. Please include any or all of the following: website, email address, phone number, Facebook page, Twitter account, mailing address, etc. Website: www.carlaowen.com Email: carlarowen@aol.com Age: 50 Family Include as much info as you like (names, ages, number of children, etc.): Married to Terry, Two children - one a graduate of Maine South High School, who is …
Jeffrey Spero is running against Eldon Burk, Mary Childers, Jin Lee, Margaret McGrath, Carla Owen and Sean Story for Maine Township High School District 207’s Board of Education.
The following information was provided by Jeffrey Spero. Patch provides a platform for candidates to share their messages, and does not give endorsements. To share your message with readers for free, add it to the Local Voices section on Patch. Name: Jeffrey S. Spero Position sought: Maine Township High School District 207 Board of Education, four-year term. Campaign contact information. Please include any or all of the following: website, email address, phone number, Facebook page, Twitter account, mailing address, etc. Email: jeffloop@aol.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/VoteForJeffSpero Mailing address: 741 S. Warrington Road, Des Plaines, IL 60016 Age: 45 Family Include as much info as you like (names, ages, number of children, etc.): …
Sean Story is running against Eldon Burk, Mary Childers, Jin Lee, Margaret McGrath, Carla Owen and Jeffrey Spero for Maine Township High School District 207’s Board of Education.
The following information was provided by Sean Story. Patch provides a platform for candidates to share their messages, and does not give endorsements. To share your message with readers for free, add it to the Local Voices section on Patch. Name: Sean Story Position sought: Maine Township High School District 207 Board of Education, four-year term. Campaign contact information. Please include any or all of the following: website, email address, phone number, Facebook page, Twitter account, mailing address, etc. Website: www.seanstory.info Email: storman66@gmail.com Phone: 847-840-4672 Age: 30 Family Include as much info as you like (names, ages, number of children, etc.): Wife – former D-64 school teacher; two children (four and one) with…
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Parent, student urge Maine Township High Schools to reconsider using Google Chromebooks. The Internet was down at Maine South for 5 days recently, and in such a case, no learning would happen, they said.
Jon and James Dombro are worried that District 207 students might not be able to study next year if the Internet goes down. Citing the fact that the Internet was down, or had interruptions, at Maine South High School four days last week and was down again Monday, they said this was a real concern. James, a sophomore at Maine South, and his father Jon Dombro addressed District 207 board members at their meeting Monday. Earlier: District 207 replacing texts with Chromebooks When Internet service failed last week and this week, the Chromebooks would have been rendered useless, James Dombro said. Devices need Internet, and Internet has been down "Right now the Internet (at Maine South) can’t seem to support the devices," said James Dombro…
Many parents and students have been asking why Maine Township High Schools didn't choose iPads, and why can't they use the devices they already own to access the e-textbooks. Here are answers from D207's Chief Tech Officer.
Ever since District 207 announced in early February that incoming freshmen would be studying from Google Chromebooks instead of paper textbooks, parents have had lots of questions. Related: Concerns raised about D207's move to Chromebooks Many of those questions centered on why Chromebooks were chosen over iPads or other devices, and why students would need new devices when their parents had already purchased something else for them. Others, such as Maine South sophomore James Dombro and his father Jon Dombro, questioned whether students would be able to use the Chromebooks without Internet access. Background: Dist. 207 replaces texts with Chromebooks We put some of these questions to Henry Thiele, Ed.D, Chief Technology Officer for …
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Three years ago, the Maine Township High School district was in dire financial straits. Now it has a $3 million surplus, and the board voted Monday to OK a $1 million abatement of property taxes.
Taxpayers who live in Maine Township will be getting some relief on their property tax bills. The Maine Township High School District 207 board voted Monday to abate $1 million in taxes, with one board member saying it represents a shift in thinking to become more cognizant of taxpayers. The move is possible because of a major improvement in the district's finances since the 2009-2010 school year, when it was facing a deficit of millions and laid off 137 employees. "This represents a significant turnaround, and our administrators as well as my colleagues on the board deserve credit for working together to bring significant change to District 207 over the last few years," said Board Member Eric Leys. The Finance Committee, consisting of …
Monday, February 11, 2013
Maine South, West and East freshman and sophomores will be toting laptops, not textbooks, next year. The district says it will save money in the long run.
As other neighboring school districts have done, the Maine Township High School District 207 board voted Monday to move from textbooks to Google Chromebooks, which are a type of laptop computer. The Chromebooks will cost each student a technology fee of $319, plus an optional insurance charge. However, over a three-year span, that would result in cost savings of $225 over what each student would normally pay in textbook charges, according to a D-207 presentation. Students who will be freshman and sophomores in the 2013-14 school year will be the first to get the Chromebooks. Juniors will be added in the 2014-15 school year and all students will have them by the 2015-16 school year. “The Education Committee supports the proposal because…
Thursday, January 31, 2013
The law firm representing four former and current students in a hazing lawsuit against D-207 administrators and faculty claims a letter sent to Dr. Audrey Haugan from the parent of a student at the Des Plaines high school in 2008 is evidence Maine Townshi
A lawyer representing current and former students in the Maine West High School hazing case alleged that the school's principal knew about the abuse in 2008. Antonio Romanucci, of Romanucci & Blandin, said a letter sent to Maine West Principal Audrey Haugan in 2008 showed she knew about the abuse, and did not report it to District 207, as required by law. Ken Wallace, superintendent at D-207, said in November that the first reports the district received of bullying and hazing at the Des Plaines high school were in September 2012. Romanucci addressed the press outside the District 207 boardroom, where members were meeting in closed session about a variety of hazing-related issues. Romanucci said that the school board has acknowledged the …
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Employee discipline and other issues related to the investigation of bullying and hazing reports at Maine West High School in Des Plaines will be discussed by Maine Township High School District 207 Board of Education in Park Ridge on Thursday.
A special school district meeting to discuss a variety of issues related to bullying and hazing reports at Maine West High School in Des Plaines will be held in Park Ridge on Thursday. Maine Township High School District 207 Board of Education voted in favor of initiating the dismissal process on one coach, Michael DiVincenzo, named in a lawsuit filed by four families of current or former students in November at a meeting in December, and other administrators, coaches and district employees are named in the complaint. Listed on the agenda for the closed session portion of the special board meeting, announced by D-207 on Tuesday, are matters related to individual students, appointment, employment, compensation, performance, discipline or …
Caroline9087
9:17 pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013
false. I believe kids will have a harder time working on those dinky devices. and more devices will add more strain and can potentially bring other things ONTO the network its self. What about managing? If I as a student buy the laptop south has no jurisdiction managing my device. They have the right to manage their own network and the devices using it. But not my own device. Only my connection … more ›