Some school board members are calling for a revision to the latest boundary lines, according to TribLocal.
As Naperville Community Unit School District 203 board members continue to examine how to best prevent overcrowding in their schools, some board members are calling for another revision, according to a report from TribLocal Naperville. Read the full story.
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Those on all sides of the issue believe that active involvement from parents and community members is the best weapon to offer young people against substance abuse.
One day last fall, the mother of a former student at Lisle Senior High School picked up the phone to learn some of the worst news a mother could hear. The call was one of her son's friends, warning, "You gotta do something, ‘cause he’s gonna end up dead." At first she believed her son's friend was exaggerating—she had recently learned her son was abusing alcohol and marijuana. She enrolled him in counseling, and believed he was improving. But the friend's next words filled her with dread, "No he's into heroin." A conversation about substance abuse spreads through the western suburbs After a 17-year-old Neuqua Valley student was charged with unlawful delivery of a controlled substance in Naperville in early February, hundreds of …
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The district's enrollment committee presented the new maps on Wednesday.
The committee working on new boundary maps for Naperville Community Unit District 203 presented its newest revision on Wednesday, which will affect students attending Steeple Run Elementary, according to a report from TribLocal Naperville. Read the full story.
A program is being held Monday at the 95th Street Library to address the use of heroin in the community.
More than a week after a Naperville teen was charged with dealing heroin, announcements went out Thursday to families in both Naperville School District 203 and Indian Prairie School District 204 about a program being held Monday to inform parents about the use of heroin in the community. Districts 203 and 204 sent the joint message to families in both districts requesting that parents be part of the conversation, the message said the focus of the meeting would be drugs in the community. The program titled: “The Rising Tide of Heroin Abuse in Naperville” is being sponsored by the Naperville Public Library in cooperation with the DuPage Child Abuse Prevention Coalition, the Naperville Police Department and the Naperville Fraternal Order of …
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The board reviewed the new policies on Monday, according to a report from the Naperville Sun.
Monday night Naperville Community Unit District 203 board members reviewed a proposed Code of Conduct, according to a recent report from the Naperville Sun. Read the full story_ at Naperville Sun.
District 203 is asking that any incorrectly mailed report cards be returned, according to a report from TribLocal.
More than 100 District 203 high school students' report cards were incorrectly mailed to emergency contacts, according to a report from TribLocal Naperville. Read the full story. This is the second report card-related glitch the school district has seen this semester.
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Representatives with K. Hovnanian Homes presented information on pricing, styles, and layout of Arbor Trails, a proposed 163-home development on Maple Avenue. The public hearing process is expected to begin next month.
National home building company K. Hovnanian Homes hopes to turn the $600 in tax revenue that DuPage County receives each year on the Meijer property into $1.5 million, ideally. That’s according to the company’s land acquisition manager, Scott Barenbrugge. Wednesday evening K. Hovnanian representatives met with Lisle residents at Grounds for Hope Cafe to review their vision for a single-family development in the lot surrounded by Benedictine University, the Green Trails neighborhood, and Green Trails Shopping Center on Maple Avenue. Homes would list between $300,000-$500,000 (with smaller plots running from the low $300,000 - low $400,000 range; and larger plots selling from the low $400,000 to mid $500,000), which developers believe …
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The District 203 Board of Education approved the Enrollment Capacity Study committee's recommendation to take more time to develop a proper solution to the over- and under-crowding issues.
More than 500 parents and concerned community members filled the Naperville Central High School auditorium Monday night as Naperville School District 203 Superintendent Mark Mitrovich and the district’s Enrollment Capacity Study committee asked the board of education for more time to make decisions on enrollment and school redistricting. The district had hired RSP Consultants to collect information about the district’s demographics, which showed a downward trend in enrollment over the next five years. After members of the 203 community became concerned that the district was moving too fast and raised concerns earlier this month, the district took a step back. During the school board’s meeting Monday the following recommendations were …
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Karlie Baker
6:37 am on Friday, March 2, 2012
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