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Location change for D150 meeting

The next community forum for District 150 is Thursday, October 4. However, rather than being held at Von Steuben, it was announced at the last meeting that the Oct. 4 meeting will be at Kingman Primary School instead, 3129 [...]

October 1st, 2007 | Category: Peoria Public Schools | Comments are closed

District numbers don’t add up

Each District 150 public forum begins the same way — with a PowerPoint presentation from the administration. One of the slides that is flashed up is titled “Enrollment to House,” and it shows these numbers:

Item
By the Numbers

Kingman, Irving & Glen Oak 2008 Enrollment
1164

Capacity Remaining at Other WHS Attendance
Area Schools
670

Planned Building Enrollment
650

“Choice” Enrollment
Unlimited

One person at the [...]

October 1st, 2007 | Category: Peoria Public Schools | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

Policy session planned for tomorrow night

Tomorrow night, October 2, the Peoria City Council will have a special meeting to discuss the use of Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds for projects such as ornamental street lights in the Orchard District. Since it’s during the regular council meting time, I wonder if it will be broadcast on WCBU and/or Insight channel [...]

October 1st, 2007 | Category: City Council, City of Peoria | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)