Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Yvonne Mayer and Russell Rhoads said they won't be seeking a second term, while Sarah Lewensohn said she hasn't made a final decision yet.
Yvonne Mayer and Russell Rhoads, two of the three District 181 Board of Education members whose terms expire next spring, said this week they won't be running for re-election, while the third, Sarah Lewensohn, said she has not yet decided. All three board members are serving their first term on the board. "I’ve been involved with the board from both sides of the table [as a parent and a board member] for over eight years now," said Mayer, whose youngest child is in seventh grade and will finish in the district next year. "I just feel at this point it would be best if some younger parents would step up and participate on things like the school board." For Rhoads, who said he originally planned on serving two terms, a job change soon after …
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Yvonne Mayer did, however, say that she can no longer trust all the information given to board members by the administration.
District 181 board member Yvonne Mayer decided not to make a motion Monday night to terminate the district's middle school ACE program as she said she would at the board's last meeting in August. The motion Mayer had planned on making was based on the fact that the district did not alert the board about data left out of a compilation of fifth-grade InView test scores provided to members, with student names redacted, at Mayer's request earlier this summer. Read more about the missing data here. Superintendent Renée Schuster said the students that were left out of the data provided to the board members were left out because they were part of groups that had 10 students or less and therefore were at risk of having their identities exposed. …
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Yvonne Mayer says she'll make the motion on Sept. 10 and cited an incomplete set of data provided to the board by the administration in June as the reasoning.
District 181 board member Yvonne Mayer says she is going to bring a motion at the board's Sept. 10 meeting to terminate the district’s middle school ACE program based on the fact that some InView test data was initially withheld from board members earlier this summer. Mayer, who earlier this year voted against continuing the ACE program during the 2012-13 school year, said at the Board of Education meeting Monday night at Elm School that “the board was lied to” in June when it received InView results data that was supposed to be for all District 181 fifth-graders but did not include the information of a number of students, several of whom were admitted into the middle school program. “I think that it calls the integrity of the entire …
Jim Sims
9:56 pm on Wednesday, November 21, 2012
For the sake of the children and teachers in District 181, let's hope the next three elected board members are not clones of Lewensohn, who has taken it upon herself to rubber stamp the sweeping changes and elimination of services proposed by the former speech therapist, Renee Schuster, who has no classroom teaching experience. more ›