Articles filed under Naperville Unit District 203

• Student performance top priority for Dist. 203 focus group Mar 12, 2013 12:00 AM
  If Naperville Unit District 203 is to continue to thrive as a leader in education, residents say, the community first must focus on student performance and bridging the achievement gap that exists between the general student body and the roughly 11 percent of the population that is considered low income. Nearly 140 residents met Tuesday to discuss the district's future during the first of nine scheduled community engagement meetings being held as part of Superintendent Dan Bridges' Future Focus 203 initiative.
  

   

• All-day kindergarten on track for fall in Naperville Dist. 203 Mar 5, 2013 12:00 AM
  Enrollment has begun and curriculum is being developed on schedule as Naperville Unit District 203 prepares to unveil the first phase of all day kindergarten in the fall. Administrators said Monday that enrollment is nearly halfway completed and that the math curriculum is complete and will be followed shortly by the reading curriculum.
  

   

• District 203 adding surveillance cameras to junior highs Mar 5, 2013 12:00 AM
  Naperville Unit District 203 administrators, having deemed their new high school surveillance system a success, are ready to begin testing the same equipment in the junior high schools. The first phase, included adding about 40 cameras to Naperville North High School, bringing the total in each high school to 64. The cameras are in common areas such as lobbies, hallways, cafeterias and stairways, and are primarily used to review what happened after an incident occurs.
  

   

• Dist. 203 candidates weigh in on educator evaluations Feb 28, 2013 12:00 AM
  A majority of the 11 candidates vying for four open seats on the Naperville Unit District 203 support recent state law that changes how teachers’ and principals’ performance is measured.
  

   

• Dist. 203 superintendent launches community outreach program Feb 25, 2013 12:00 AM
  Since taking over the reins of Naperville Unit District 203 last year, Superintendent Dan Bridges has met a lot of people and talked about a lot of education and community issues. Now he’s devised a plan to pick the best ideas he’s heard and put them out to the community to see where they go.
  

   
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  Marine stresses positive choices for students Feb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  With all the talk of school violence, lockdown drills and other topics that scare kids, Kennedy Junior High language arts teacher Charlotte Bunce says she thought her students needed to meet a real hero. Enter Maj. Guillermo Rosales, who just happens to be an associate of Bunce’s brother. Bunce said the Marine’s story, along with multiple deployments to Iraq’s “Triangle of Death” and Niger, Africa, made him more than qualified. “He’s like a Batman or Captain America of our own, not in a comic strip somewhere,” Bunce said.
  

   
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  Sabina Qadir: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Candidate information for Sabina Qadir, running for Naperville Unit District 203 School Board (4-year Terms)
  

   
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  Jay Fisher: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Candidate information for Jay Fisher, running for Naperville Unit District 203 School Board (4-year Terms)
  

   
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  Susan Crotty: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Candidate information for Susan Crotty, running for Naperville Unit District 203 School Board (4-year Terms)
  

   
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  Neil Samuels: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Candidate information for Neil Samuels, running for Naperville Unit District 203 School Board (4-year Terms)
  

   
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  Heather Rajamoney: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Candidate information for Heather Rajamoney, running for Naperville Unit District 203 School Board (4-year Terms)
  

   
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  Kristin Fitzgerald: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Candidate information for Kristin Fitzgerald, running for Naperville Unit District 203 School Board (4-year Terms)
  

   
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  David Fish: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Candidate information for David Fish, running for Naperville Unit District 203 School Board (4-year Terms)
  

   
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  Jackie Romberg: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Candidate information for Jackie Romberg, running for Naperville Unit District 203 School Board (4-year Terms)
  

   
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  Derek Krauss: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Candidate information for Derek Krauss, running for Naperville Unit District 203 School Board (4-year Terms)
  

   
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  Charles Cush: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Candidate information for Charles Cush, running for Naperville Unit District 203 School Board (4-year Terms)
  

   
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  Donna Wandke: Candidate ProfileFeb 15, 2013 12:00 AM
  Candidate information for Donna Wandke, running for Naperville Unit District 203 School Board (4-year Terms)
  

   
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  School conference hotels, food, travel cost taxpayers $277,086Feb 13, 2013 12:00 AM
  Come for the conference, stay for the hotel room, $57 steak dinner, valet parking and laundry service. Those are just some of the extra costs taxpayers in 89 suburban school districts covered for board members and administrators who attended a November conference in Chicago. The districts racked up $277,086.17 in hotel, food, travel and incidental costs over the weekend-long conference.
  

   

• Editorial: School conference costs reflect need for restraintFeb 12, 2013 12:00 AM
  A Daily Herald editorial questions the lack of restraint evident when 89 school districts spent $574,197.on a weekend conference in Chicago last November.
  

   
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  Getting hands-on with science at Fermilab open house Feb 11, 2013 12:00 AM
  Thousands learned more about Fermilab and science during a family open house Sunday. The premier United States lab for particle physics research opens its doors annually to give families a chance to watch experiments and learn about them, talk to scientists and tour parts of the facility.