Articles filed under Mount Prospect District 57
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Teacher salaries frozen in new District 57 contractNov 29, 2011 11:00 pm - Mount Prospect Elementary District 57 and its teachers union have approved a new two-year contract that freezes base salary levels over the course of the deal and limits...
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Mount Prospect teacher’s setback becomes opportunity of a lifetimeNov 16, 2011 4:30 am - For Mount Prospect native Anne Senn, a professional setback earlier this year became the opportunity of a lifetime. Senn, an elementary schoolteacher, was laid off in th...
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New Westbrook principal loves guiding the youngest studentsOct 21, 2011 12:00 am - Mary Kalogeropoulos expected she'd miss having her own group of students when she left teaching to become principal of Westbrook School for Young Learners in Mount Prosp...
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Dist. 57 to hold off on tax hike requestOct 06, 2011 12:00 am - Mount Prospect Elementary District 57 leaders say they will probably wait until 2013 before asking voters to approve a tax hike. The school board had been considering go...
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Leave cursive instruction aloneSep 15, 2011 5:00 am - I found your article about teaching cursive writing to our youth in the public schools very interesting, indeed. Having taught and served as principal in two schools in ...
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District 57 considers tax hike request in 2012Sep 15, 2011 12:00 am - Mount Prospect Elementary District 57 leaders continue to explore the possibility of asking voters to approve a tax hike next year. The discussion comes in light of dwin...
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Palatine Dist. 15 exploring STEM academySep 15, 2011 12:00 am - If Palatine Township Elementary District 15 officials can manage to find the funding, its seventh- and eighth-graders may soon be exposed to a curriculum more focused on...
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Dist. 57 is reaping money mess it sowedAug 29, 2011 5:04 am - District 57 just called, purporting to be conducting a community survey regarding “the district’s financial situation. (Read: Trying to justify a referendum).” The quest...
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Doesn’t trust Dist. 57 with his moneyAug 22, 2011 5:00 am - Mr. Berry’s recent letter to the Daily Herald makes some remarks that Mount Prospect taxpayers would take issue with. He claims that the last referendum passed in Distri...
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Dist. 57 an asset for all of Mt. ProspectAug 08, 2011 12:00 am - District 57 has not passed a referendum since 1988, and has among the lowest-paid staff in the 42 districts of the Northwest Cook region. The district’s revenue is contr...