Letter: Plan serves community
The Moving 15 Forward plan at Palatine Elementary School District 15 has been under development for many years and reflects the best thinking to meet our community's expectations.
This plan focuses on addressing the highest-priority educational and school facility needs to safeguard and advance our schools now and into the future. The plan was designed to make sure every student, school, and community the District serves benefits.
Here are the three main areas the plan covers:
• Repair and Restore our 20 schools that average in age of 54 years and make up 1.7M square feet of property;
• Update Learning Spaces; and
• Improve Student Transitions as children move from kindergarten through eighth grade and then on to high school in Districts 211 and 214.
The plan would also bring full-day kindergarten, which will allow more than twice the amount of instructional time for staff to educate our students with varying levels of readiness.
It also welcomes sixth-graders to the junior high to create adolescent-focused middle schools.
As the second largest elementary district in Illinois, District 15 is seeking support from the seven communities we serve all or part of so we are better able to educate and support a uniquely diverse group of over 11,000 learners.
The District is matching dollar for dollar the funds raised by this referendum to pay for the Moving 15 Forward plan. We strongly urge our community to vote yes on Nov. 8. Please look for our referendum question on your ballot.
The time is now to move District 15 forward for our students and our communities.
Scott Boucher
Rolling Meadows