Just heard that parents of Kindergarteners in the BF school area are being informed that enrollment is down so there will be only 3 sections of K this fall. I'm feeling pretty good right now about voting down that "expand Hadley or we're doomed" referendum of two years ago.

The current 1st grade sections in Churchill are huge this year. There is also a bump in enrollment in the 5th grade sections.

This follows the overall enrollment pattern of the past 20 years. There are bumps and dips in the individual class enrollments, while the overall enrollment remains virtually unchanged.

I feel bad for the parents whose kids were assigned morning K in June and planned accordingly, only to learn yesterday that their kids have been switched to pm. I can just imagine someone having big childcare issues as a result.

Per our Board meeting last night, the current enrollment numbers showed a decline of 100 kindergartners compared to last year's class. That's across the District. We went up a section at Lincoln, and we went down (1 or 2 sections each) at the other 3 elementary schools.

We'll see what the "final" sixth-day number shakes out to be, but there certainly appears to be a large decline that isn't going to evaporate over the next couple of weeks. The State uses the sixth-day of school numbers for several data/dollar purposes, so that is a key number.

We are smart in Glen Ellyn. What was it . . . 85% who voted "no" for the SuperSchool?

We are smart.

So a hundred less kids what is that four, five portables.

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So a hundred less kids what is that four, five portables.

Give it a second. we can still have a curriculum change or add a fantastic new program that can utilize those empty classrooms. I would hate to brake a lease or resell the unused portables at a loss.

The last couple of years D41 has been complaining about how bad these portables are. How expensive, bad for the kids and so on. Now that we have a chance to get rid of a couple of them we're told no we may need them just in case.

Or could it be that less classrooms means less staff.

Speaking of the School Board meeting the other night, can any of the Board members explain how much $ was allocated to turn some offices in the D41 admin building into a conference room?
Is what I heard right....that they canned some employees due to budget issues and to save $ then went ahead and allocated $ to turn the offices of these people into a big conference room? I'm just curious. Thanks.

My understanding is that parents of kids that were switched from AM to PM were contacted to determine if they were able to do so. I'm sure some families may have been disappointed, maybe even really left in a bind. However, at least the school made some effort to switch families that were able to cope w/ the switch.

That's good to hear - I'm glad they did their best to limit the impact on the switch. When my oldest went to K, we "had" to have a.m. because her daycare couldn't swing an afternoon pickup at Ben Franklin. I can just imagine trying to figure that one out . . .

Akin, you are referring to the request to close off a portion of the 2nd floor of the CSO to create a needed conference room. This was discussed at the 8/2 finance committee meeting as well as the board meeting on 8/16. Feel free to listen to the streaming audio for the full discussion.

In summary, the cost is $17,500 for this conference room. The area that is being turned into conference room was occupied by cubicles, not hardened offices. The money for this was put in the capital budget already.

I hope this answers your question.

Thanks,

Dan Smith, Jr.

Thank you, Dan!