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Victor J. Andrew High School

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

D230 Approves $1.7 Million in School Renovations

The Consolidated High School District 230 board also gave the go ahead for IDOT to buy land to then widen LaGrange Road, which is expected to begin later this year.

The Consolidated High School District 230 Board of Trustees unanimously approved a 15-item list of repairs, updates and renovations for all three high schools during the March 20 meeting. A total of $1,717,000 worth of repairs were green lighted for Chicago-based Poulos, Inc., which was the lowest bid out of eight, according to school district documents. The repairs include main office alterations and asbestos removal at Stagg, media center alterations on both the first and second floors at Andrew, tennis court resurfacing and cashier’s office alterations at Sandburg, and new gym floors installed at both Stagg and Sandburg. Read the attached document for a full list of repairs and their individual costs. The board also approved selling …

WALTER MARZEC

6:56 pm on Thursday, March 28, 2013

230 is a liberal spender, we shall be watching the wastage   more ›

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

D230 Students Expected to Start School 30 Mins Earlier in August

The Consolidated High School District 230 administration is looking to create an advisory/resource period for all students by starting studies at 8 a.m. instead of 8:30 a.m. beginning in August.

In effort to extend tutoring and other services beyond class work help, Consolidated High School District 230 administrators are planning to start school days 30 minutes earlier during the 2013-2014 school year. Freshmen and sophomores at Carl Sandburg High School, Amos Alonzo Stagg High School and Victor J. Andrew High School now have access to a 25-minute advisory period during the day with the same teacher, but the change would expand the program to all students and also add variety to the study period. With current bus schedules, not all students can take advantage of the program, said D135 spokesperson Carla Erdey. “We’re looking at making sure the same opportunities are available for all students, as well as meeting with teachers, …

Monday, September 17, 2012

D230 Option Zone Residents Petitioning Against New Attendance Plan

A proposed plan to move students with the option to attend Sandburg, to Stagg and Andrew has sparked opposition among would-be affected residents.

Updated, Sept. 17, 2012 About 650 residents have signed a petition against a proposed Consolidated High School District 230 attendance plan that would direct students in two areas to have one high school option, as of Sunday night. The plan includes placing students from Community Consolidated District 146’s Central Middle School strictly at Victor J. Andrew High School upon entering high school, and also dissolving an option zone around Carl Sandburg High School where Palos South Middle School students would be directed only to Amos Alonzo Stagg High School. Students from both middle schools have the option to study at Sandburg, and would continue to be able to for the next three classes of incoming freshmen under the plan. Starting with …

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Jay

5:30 pm on Thursday, November 29, 2012

Sorry Donna, just reading these as I signed up on an email I don't use too often. No Stagg was NOT better equipped for SN students. It was over crowded with students and equipment and a real mess. We tried when our students were in 6th grade to have them go to their home school with the students they went to grammar school with but we lost that fight. Andrew, when the program was finally there, …   more ›

Monday, November 7, 2011

Adequate Yearly Progress: A Look at the D230 Report Card

The school district is above state averages in a number of categories, but is technically not meeting federal standards. Patch talks with district staff about No Child Left Behind's goals that are eluding nearly all Illinois schools.

Progress can be a relative concept. One of the requirements of No Child Left Behind legislation is for each public school district to report test scores, finance data and other information that detail the district’s performance. Last week, school district report cards were released, which describe various stats from financing, to census-like school composition and test scores. But whether a school is successful based on these benchmarks depends on how the data is read. When looking at the individual pieces of Consolidated School District 230’s report, the district ranks above the state averages for ACT, Prairie State Achievement Exam and Illinois Alternate Assessment test scores in 2011. The PSAE and IAA numbers are percentages of students…

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