Monday, January 28, 2013
Patch recently caught up with Summit Hill School District's four outgoing board members to discuss their time with the district and why they're not running for another term.
Mary Kenny has been a member of the Summit Hill School District 161 Board of Education for so many years that she’s lost count — she guesses it’s somewhere between 25 and 30. In the late 1970s, Kenny canvassed residential construction sites in the area, talking to families who were building their homes in the district, to create support for the construction of Indian Trail Elementary School. She was the president of the Lincoln-Way Area Special Education District 843 Board of Education for more than ten years and she is currently president of the Summit Hill board. During her time with District 161, enrollment has grown from approximately 1,200 students to 3,400 students. For the first time in decades, Kenny’s name will not appear on the …
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
The police investigation of a Brookside Glen fatality left many District 161 students stuck at school. Parents received calls from the district to pick up their children.
Several bus routes in Summit Hill School District 161 did not run Wednesday afternoon due to a police investigation of a reported fatality in the Brookside Glen neighborhood in Tinley Park. Eight buses with stops in Brookside Glen were canceled, said D161 Superintendent Barb Rains. Rains said the cancellations were made because police barricades would have interfered with the ability of the buses to make scheduled stops. Rains said the district didn’t want to risk dropping students in unfamiliar areas. “We wanted to keep our students as safe as possible,” said Rains. Students were kept at school until they could be picked up. All district parents received an email about the cancellations and parents whose children were affected also …
Friday, December 9, 2011
On the agenda from Thursday's Lincoln-Way High School District 210 regular board meeting.
Lincoln-Way High School District’s newest board member said she hopes to maintain student achievement while protecting taxpayer interests of a district she deeply admires and respects. Dee Molinare replaced board member David Izzo—a recent appointee of the Will County Board—on Thursday after relinquishing her seat at Summit Hill School District 161, which she held for 10 years. READ: D161 Now Accepting Applications for Its Open Board Seat A mother of four with a freshman at Lincoln-Way North High School, Molinare works as an adjunct instructor in mathematics and psychology at Joliet Junior College. “I can certainly attest to the wonderful compassion and sagacity and real sense of duty that she really brought to the table there,” said Sean …
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Square Dad
10:43 pm on Sunday, March 31, 2013
I agree 100%, John! Seems like they are trying to their crony the job before the election. That nonsense might work in Chicago and Springfield, but we shouldn't tolerate here. more ›