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Crete-Monee school board, administration addressing common goals, separate roles
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Feb. 26, 2015 Crete-Monee School District’s board of education has agreed to keep the current vision statement and an amended mission statement in place for a few more months. Elected officials, voting 4-0 Tuesday, tasked Supt Nathaniel Cunningham with editing the two documents and completing the mission statement by adding its […]
Itasca-based firm to design C-M middle school wing
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Feb. 25, 2015 School District 201U Board of Education members Tuesday selected an award-winning architectural firm to design Crete-Monee Middle School’s sixth-grade wing. Board members Maurice Brown, Nakia Hall, Tom Hysell and Kim Sanders, in a special meeting, voted to hire Itasca-based DLA Architects to design and oversee the University Park […]
C-M SD201U role models offer advice, inspiration to hundreds during Night of Leadership program
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Nov. 26, 2014 An audience member arriving a little (30 minutes) late for last week’s Night of Leadership at Crete-Monee would have walked in on one member of the seven-person panel delivering what appeared to be a standard political stump speech to the hundreds of assembled students and parents. Why would […]
Crete-Monee 201-U Superintendent Cunningham aims ‘to build trust, work together’
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com July 18, 2014 Crete-Monee School District’s new superintendent said Tuesday he’s “looking forward to the opportunity to build trust and work together.” Speaking during the regular monthly board of education meeting, Nathaniel Cunningham said his family is moving to Monee and his youngest child is enrolling as a freshman at Crete-Monee […]
SD201-U: New teacher contract, no new supt yet
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com June 18, 2014 Teachers in the Crete-Monee 201-U School District have a contract through August 2015, but the search for a superintendent continues. School board members Monday unanimously approved contracts with the Crete-Monee Education Association for the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years. “It took awhile,” Board Vice President Maurice Brown said […]
Crete-Monee board disagrees about open letter
by Dennis Sullivan editor @ewcnews.com March 24, 2014 A proponent of a “fair” contract for Crete-Monee teachers has triggered a bit of controversy among school board members by asking if they all support the open letter about contract negotiations posted on the School District 201U Website. Speaking at Tuesday’s regular School District 201U board […]
Asst. Supt: No post-fight board policy
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Feb. 20, 2014 A School District 201U official said Monday the Crete-Monee High School administration had no board policy to guide it when it cancelled after-school tutoring, sports practices and other activities on Feb. 3 and 4 in the wake of a series of inter-student fights that resulted in the arrest […]
School board OKs Balmoral, Crete restructure
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.com Jan. 24, 2014 The board of education has approved an aggressive strategy intended to improve learning and test scores at Balmoral and Crete elementary schools — the two weakest academic operations in Crete-Monee School District 201U. Eight points of the 10-point plan address shared deficiencies, while two points target issues unique to […]
SD 201-U board rejects $15M bond issuance
by Dennis Sullivan editor@ewcnews.comThe Crete-Monee School District board of education Monday rejected a proposal to sell up to $15 million in working cash bonds, with Board Vice President Maurice Brown arguing SD 201-U should first have a specific spending plan in place. Brown, who led the opposition, didn’t rule out the possibility of issuing the […]
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