D-64 Doubles Down On Fake Security With Part-Time SROs
Last week’s Park Ridge Herald-Advocate reported that the Board of Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 wants to damn the torpedoes and move full speed ahead on the construction of school building...
View ArticleD-64 SRO Duties And Responsibilities: When’s A Cop’s Not A Cop?
We apologize for the eleventh-hour nature of this post, but on the agenda for tonight’s meeting of the School Board for Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 (7:00 p.m. at Emerson Middle School) is a...
View ArticleD-64 Neglects SPED Students, Pushes SROs
After spending the first 21 days of this month doing the real-world work that keeps the editor of this blog employed, it’s finally time to write about the May 21, 2018 report by Lisa Harrod of LMT...
View ArticleHas The Train That Never Should Have Left The Station Finally Been Stopped?
It has been more than a year since we first heard about Park Ridge-Niles School District 64’s plan to put very part-time – a total of 8 hours per week, 4 hours per each of 2 days – school resource...
View ArticleA Two-Fer Tuesday: City Water & Choosing The New Tiu
Today we’re giving you a two-fer: A regular-sized discussion of the City of Park Ridge’s water increase and a BONUS discussion of the Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 Board’s replacement of...
View ArticleSPED Major Factor In Picking New Sup’t., Choosing D-64 Board Candidates
A recent “candidates’ forum” hosted by parents of Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 students with “special needs” was held at the Shawarma Inn in South Park. In attendance were 6 (Steve Blindauer,...
View ArticleTime For Heinz To Go
We won’t lie: We were not unhappy to hear back in December that Park Ridge-Niles School District 64’s Superintendent Laurie Heinz had accepted the same position at Palatine School District 15. When she...
View ArticleBuilding $50 Million Surplus On $78 Million Of Debt Borrelli’s “Greatest...
In our post “Is Tonight’s $20 Million Bond ‘Hearing’ Another D-64 Charade?” (April 24, 2017)), we criticized the Park Ridge-Niles School District 64 Board for issuing $9.25 million of high-interest,...
View ArticleIt’s Time To De-Select Sotos Off The D-64 Board
A rule of thumb among trial lawyers is that selecting a jury is actually more about de-selecting those prospective jurors who might be hostile to your client. In a similar vein, today we suggest that...
View ArticleOur Only Endorsement For D-64 Board: Gareth Kennedy
We apologize for the lateness of this post, but we spent much of last week dealing with technical problems on the site, and the past 3 days reading, analyzing and cross-referencing all the campaign...
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