Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Where did Lincoln-Way place in the national rankings released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report? It's the only south suburban school to make the list.
Lincoln-Way East High School ranks among the top high schools in America, according to a ranking of public schools released Tuesday by U.S. News & World Report magazine. LW East — ranked 47th in Illinois and 1,264th in the United States — was the only south suburban high school to place in the magazine's annual report. The rankings rely on a mix of criteria, including teacher-student ratio, test scores and college readiness. U.S. News said it collected data on more than 21,000 public high schools from 49 states and the District of Columbia, excluding Nebraska, which didn't report enough data. It joined forces with the American Institutes for Research, a D.C.-based organization, to evaluate schools on overall student performance on state-…
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Friday, April 12, 2013
Supt. Lawrence Wyllie presented a review of the financial situation.
At the Lincoln-Way High School District 210 Board of Education meeting held Thursday, board members heard a report on the outcome of the bond refunding approved in January to restructure the debt to help reduce the total tax rate citizens will see in their May property tax bills. Supt. Lawrence A. Wyllie reviewed the financial situation for board members explaining that the total tax rate last year was 1.8306 compared to 1.9190 this year. “If we would have not refunded the bonds, it would have been .0467 higher or 1.9657. We have helped the taxpayers,” Wyllie told the board. Wyllie continued, “The CPI was 3.0 percent issued in these bills while next year it will be 1.7 percent. The total extension including bond and interest was $70,252,…
Friday, December 21, 2012
See how much the salary spread is between a 24-year veteran and a 1st year.
LWHS District 210 is expected in the 2013-2014 school year to save $65,334.77 in salary alone with the shift from the soon-to-be retired Supt. Lawrence Wyllie to Scott Tingley, the superintendent-to-be. According to the contract, the compensation package for the 24-year veteran superintendent was identical to all other LWHS District 210 administrators. The contract states: "… (T)he salary increase will be equal to the average salary increase approved by the board for all administrators." In a comparison between Wyllie's 2012-2013 contract and Tingley's for next year, the district stands to save $915.84 in the pension contribution plan. The contract specifically states: "(T)he Board shall pick up and pay on the Superintendent's behalf, the …
Monday, August 20, 2012
The Route 30 construction project requires motorists to be even more aware of safety precautions around school buses this year.
At 160-strong, they spent the summer parked in the quiet lots of the Lincoln-Way School District 210 Transportation Department, located on a road that bears the name of their sole purpose on this earth. Those long yellow buses—the appearance of which has changed little in the past 20 or so years—have been inspected, repaired, retooled and cleaned-up all on Schoolhouse Road in unincorporated New Lenox. And now it's the end of August, and they have already taken to the streets that encompass the 105 square miles of the district. Elementary districts start this week: Aug. 21 for D122 and D157C, Aug. 22 for Summit Hill D161 The wheels of the bus will definitely go round-and-round, but LW Transportation Director Rich Wilkey along with his …
Jane Founda
2:13 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
Alex, how would you know if I excuse my kid's behavior? Why don't you engage your brain & reread my post, you jerk. Who is excusing behavior when you want to look right past the fact that the deans and adults in the school do not do their jobs properly? Whether it's because of inexperience or just laziness, you be the judge, since you seem very experienced at passing judgements. BTW, kids who are… more ›