Community Corner
VOTE: Are You Scared for Your Kids' L-W Education?
Faced with difficult economic situations, the school districts around the Lincoln-Way area are facing tough decisions when it comes to the future. Staff cuts, increased fees and closing schools could be options. What could that mean for students?
The recession. Reduced property tax revenues because of a bursting housing bubble. Disappearing state aid.
The past few years have been a perfect economic storm for the school districts in the Lincoln-Way area, a storm that has challenged their boards of education and administrators to maintain the same high quality education for students with fewer funds.
- At a special meeting over the weekend, Superintendent Lawrence Wyllie .
- New Lenox School District 122 will have and could face declines in new growth, equalized assessed value and state aid over the next few years.
- To deal with dwindling enrollment, the school board .
- The school board will be deciding soon on .
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Naturally, parents in these districts are concerned and have questions. How will possible cuts or layoffs affect a student's education? What will this mean for extra-curricular activities? What can a parent do to ensure his or her child gets the best schooling possibility?
YOUR TURN! Take our poll and tell us your thoughts about your children's future in the Lincoln-Way school systems in our comments section. What do you think these districts need to do?
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