Articles filed under Butler District 53

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  Tax increase questions on several DuPage ballotsFeb 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  Voters in several DuPage County communities will weigh in this spring on an array of ballot questions from governmental entities, including five that are seeking more tax money.
  

   

• The Soapbox Jan 12, 2013 12:00 AM
  Daily Herald editors take the news of the week and offer up their quick-hit opinions in The Soapbox.
  

   
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  Oak Brook’s Butler District 53 names new superintendent Jan 10, 2013 12:00 AM
  A longtime Northwest suburban school administrator, Heidi Wennstrom, has been named superintendent of Oak Brook’s Butler Elementary District 53. She will assume her new duties July 1, replacing Sandra Martin at the helm of the high-performing district that serves roughly 435 students at one elementary school and one junior high. Martin is retiring after 10 years in the superintendent’s post. "She really is an educator's educator," school board President Alan Hanzlik said of the new hire.
  

   

• Editorial: A road map to transparencyAug 7, 2012 12:00 AM
  Those local governments that need to be more transparent must make it a priority and emulate those who are doing it well as graded by the Illinois Policy Institute, a Daily Herald editorial says.
  

   

• Bloomingdale homes school boundary swap denied May 1, 2012 12:00 AM
  Two subdivisions of 25 homes in Bloomingdale will remain within the school district boundaries of Glenbard High School District 87 and Marquardt Elementary District 15, even though residents there sought to detach their properties and annex into two other nearby school districts.
  

   

• Judge stops school district swap in Oak BrookApr 9, 2012 12:00 AM
  A DuPage County judge has reversed a decision by the regional school board that would have allowed an Oak Brook neighborhood to switch school districts, officials said Monday. The ruling by Judge Bonnie Wheaton came as welcome news to Salt Creek Elementary District 48 and DuPage High School District 88, who stood to lose about 15 students and a combined $1 million a year in tax revenue.
  

   

• Lessons from two DuPage teacher contracts Feb 13, 2012 12:00 AM
  A Daily Herald editorial says negotiators for a teacher contract in Oak Brook can learn something from their counterparts in West Chicago.
  

   

• Butler District 53 contract talks at standstill Feb 8, 2012 12:00 AM
  Teacher contract talks remain at a standstill in Oak Brook’s Butler Elementary District 53 with both sides apparently dug in for what could be a long fight over salaries. After 24 bargaining sessions over the past year, including three meetings with a federal mediator, the teachers and school board have agreed on 26 of 27 open issues for a proposed three-year pact for the high-achieving district’s 48 teachers. But with no agreement in sight on compensation, the school board declared an impasse on Jan. 12 and the two sides have not returned to the bargaining table since.
  

   

• District 53 teachers want to return to bargaining table Jan 31, 2012 12:00 AM
  Teachers in Oak Brook’s Butler Elementary District 53 said Tuesday there’s still wiggle room in their contract negotiations with the school board and they’re eager to return to the bargaining table for face-to-face talks. The two sides broke off formal negotiations more than 10 days ago after agreeing on all provisions of a proposed three-year pact except compensation. “We’d like to sit back down and get this done before it causes conflict or tension within the community of Oak Brook,” union President Andrew Griffith said. “We’d like to sit down and get this deal done as two professionals.” But school board President Alan Hanzlik said district officials aren’t in a rush to resume talks unless the union is ready to make significant concessions.
  

   

• Oak Brook schools declare contract impasse Jan 30, 2012 12:00 AM
  Teachers and administrators to Oak Brook's Butler Elementary District 53 have declared an impasse in contract talks after nearly a year of negotiations. The district's final contract offer calls for raises of 2.3 percent, 2.8 percent and 3.3 percent over the next three years. The union is asking for 3.3 percent, 3.8 percent and 3.8 percent.
  

   
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  Oak Brook neighborhood wants to switch schoolsAug 29, 2011 12:00 AM
  Residents of an Oak Brook subdivision prevailed in their petition to pull out of Salt Creek Elementary District 48 and DuPage High School District 88 so the neighborhood children aren't "heading in all different directions." Now, though, there's nothing to do but wait as the school districts appeal.
  

   

• Districts 48, 88 file appeal to stop detachment Jul 5, 2011 12:00 AM
  Salt Creek Elementary School District 48 and DuPage High School District 88 have filed an appeal in the 18th District Circuit Court to reverse a ruling that would allow an Oak Brook neighborhood to detach from the two districts.
  

   

• Districts 48, 88 to appeal detachment Jun 14, 2011 12:00 AM
  Two DuPage school districts will appeal the detachment ruling permitting residents of a small Oak Brook neighborhood to switch school districts. DuPage High School District 88 stands to lose $600,000 in revenue if the detachment goes through; Salt Creek Elementary District 48 would lose $450,000.
  

   

• Oak Brook residents get OK to leave school districts May 12, 2011 12:00 AM
  The DuPage Regional Board of School Trustees votes 4-3 to allow residents of a small Oak Brook subdivision to detach from Salt Creek Elementary District 48 and DuPage High School District 88. The school districts may appeal.
  

   
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  Oak Brook’s ‘Xtreme Librarian’ wins national honor Apr 4, 2011 12:00 AM
  A school librarian in Oak Brook has been named a "Mover and Shaker" by the national Library Journal. The magazine dubbed Brook Forest School's John Schumacher "Xtreme Librarian."
  

   
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  Oak Brook families want to switch school districts Mar 16, 2011 12:00 AM
  Residents of a small subdivision in Oak Brook are petitioning to detach from Salt Creek Elementary District 48 and DuPage High School District 88. The two school districts say the detachment would cost each of them more than $450,000 in taxes money, and they are fighting the measure.
  

   

• Oak Brook schools win honorsMar 6, 2010 12:00 AM
  Butler Junior High and Brook Forest Elementary schools in Oak Brook received the highest honors on Illinois' honor roll for schools. Both in Butler District 53, the schools were named Academic Excellence Award Winners and placed on the 2009 Honor Roll of Illinois schools.