Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Several area schools have announced closings for Tuesday, March 5. Stay tuned for updates as more information becomes available.
Updated, March 5, 9 a.m. Several area schools have already announced plans to close Tuesday ahead of what could be the year's largest snowfall. Oak Forest High School, along with the rest of Bremen High School District 228, announced it will be closed. Student recognition night, which was scheduled for 7 p.m. March 5, will be rescheduled. Southwest Coop for Special Education will also be closed. District 144 schools are also closed. Arbor Park School District 145 schools are closed as well. District 146 is also closed, as is St. Damian. All before and after school activities in Forest Ridge Elementary School District 142 are canceled. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning that is in effect from 3 a.m. to …
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
The Bremen High School District 228 Board of Education approved a two-year busing contract renewal and capital needs funding at its Feb. 19 meeting.
District 228 board members doled out and earmarked a pretty penny on the future of the district at its Feb. 19 meeting. The board first approved a two-year contract extension with Illinois School Bus and Alpha School Bus, before approving 2014 capital needs funding in the amount of $1.25 million. Both moves were approved in a 5-to-0 vote, with board president Deb Stearns and board member Marc Turner absent from the meeting. Assistant Superintendent of Finance Tom O'Malley negotiated the busing contracts, said board member Evelyn Gleason. The contracts call for a 1.7 percent increase in cost for the 2013–14 school year and the lesser of the CPI, or 2.5 percent, for the 2014–15 school year. “These are great renewal costs, so the [finance] …
Thursday, February 14, 2013
District 228 administration still hasn't signed an emerging sports letter for lacrosse, which would allow the Oak Forest Fury, a high school club team made up of area students, to compete against other schools.
High school lacrosse players and their parents in Bremen High School District 228 just want one thing: a chance. The players want to take the field under the lights and compete against other high school teams, while the parents want a chance to cheer their children on at the varsity level. But they can't—yet. The District 228 board of education, so far, has not signed off on an emerging sports letter, which is required by the Illinois High School Association to compete in lacrosse at the high school level. Without the letter, high school level lacrosse players in D228 cannot play other teams in the state. “We are now the only team without that waiver signed in the Chicago Southland,” said Oak Forest Park District Commissioner Joe Conway, …
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Bremen High School District Board of Education President Deb Stearns will stay on the April 9 ballot, after the district's education officers electoral board voted to dismiss several challenges to her candidacy.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Bremen High School District Board of Education President Deb Stearns will stay on the April 9 ballot, after the district's education officers electoral board voted to dismiss several challenges to her candidacy.
Bremen High School District 228 Board of Education President Deb Stearns will remain on the April 9 ballot, following the dismissal of a challenge to her candidacy. At a Jan. 23 special meeting of the D228 Education Officers Electoral Board, members dismissed resident Steve Szabo's challenge due to a, "failure to state the interest of the objector," one of five motions Stearns's lawyer made to dismiss the challenge at a meeting earlier in January. “The courts have said there doesn't have to be much of one, but you've got to have one,” said Mike Davies, president pro-temp of the board. “When I review Mr. Szabo's objection, I don't see anything that resembles, or comes close to resembling that issue.” Szabo was not present at the Jan. 23 …
Friday, January 18, 2013
Anthony Fiorenzo, a former Bremen High School District 228 substitute teacher, says he was terminated from his position Jan. 9, over a discussion with Board of Education President Deb Stearns. Now, Fiorenzo is contemplating legal action.
A former Bremen High School District 228 substitute teacher is contemplating legal action against the district, following his termination Jan. 9. Anthony Fiorenzo, who worked as a sub in the district for three years, claims he was fired from his job following a dialogue with board president Deb Stearns, regarding a Facebook post that depicted the district's students in an unfavorable light. The post depicted students from each of the four high schools in various scenarios, labeled with the schools' names. “The Oak Forest children in the picture were all Caucasian students sitting for a class picture, the Hillcrest photo was a photo of the Hillcrest basketball team, the photo of the Bremen students depicted kids drinking and partying, …
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Bremen High School District 228 board of education approved a move to online registration for classes at its Jan. 15 meeting. The online process is expected to save thousands of dollars for the district and ease the process for students.
Parents of students and students registering for courses in Bremen High School District 228 are about to have a lot less paperwork to fill out and sort, thanks to a move by the district's board of education at its Jan. 15 meeting. The board, which was without member Marc Turner, passed a measure to transfer all class registration to an electronic format, potentially saving the district thousands of dollars annually on paper mailings. “The process will save the district considerable funds, by eliminating the annual mailing, as well the cost associated with providing workers for the walk-in registration dates,” said board member Evelyn Gleason. The board's finance committee and Superintendent Bill Kendall recommended the district's move to …
Friday, January 11, 2013
A candidate contending for a seats on the Bremen 228 Board of Education faces objections to her candidate petition nominations. An Education Officers Electoral Board special meeting will be held Jan. 11 to hear the objections.
The filing date for the April 9 election has passed, and one member of the Bremen District 228 Board of Education faces objections to her candidacy. Current board president, Deb Stearns, will appear before the Education Officers Electoral Board on Friday, Jan. 11. Stearns, and possibly other Bremen School District 228 Board of Education candidates, will attend a special meeting 9 a.m. Jan. 11, at the district offices. The electoral board will hear the objections to Stearns' candidacy and then determine if she will remain on the ballot. Stearns is one of six candidates who filed for the April 9, 2013 election. Candidates include: * denotes incumbent candidate
Monday, November 5, 2012
Bremen High School District 228 faculty and students in Child Care II classes within the district recently underwent training to become CPR and First Aid certified. The certification was a new part of coursework in the class.
Seven teachers in Bremen High School District 228, and more than 50 students, are now CPR and first aid certified, thanks to a new initiative in the Child Care II course in the district. The teachers and students gained the certification after one teacher in the district suggested it would be beneficial to both students and staff. “One of the teachers who happened to teach our Child Care II class said she would like to have her CPR certification because she works with little kids on a daily basis,” said April Nykaza, Family and Consumer Science Supervisor at Tinley Park High School. Nykaza said that after researching the idea, the district was able to secure grant funding for the seven teachers to become certified CPR and first aid …
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
For more than two years, Oak Forest Fury parents, coaches and players have tried to get Bremen School District 228 to sign an Emerging Sports Agreement, that would allow the team to play other high school teams. So far, the district has refused.
Players in many sports don the colors of Bremen High School District 228's four schools. But one sport hasn't made the district's roster: boys and girls lacrosse, a sport the Illinois High School Association named an 'emerging sport,' in 2009. Parents, coaches and players from the Oak Forest Fury, an Oak Forest Park District club team, have tried over the past two years to change the district's mind about fielding a team—pleading with the board of education to sign an Emerging Sports Agreement letter so that high school aged players of the in the district could play on a parent funded, co-op club team. But they're not budging. “We want everyone to be clear that this program is parent-funded,” said Michelle Sopko, who spoke before the …
Lauren Traut
9:13 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Thanks, Jason. Went to sleep around 1:30 and it still wasn't on the list. more ›