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The Chicago Tribune ran a story today about school funding and the trend of school districts increasingly turning to parents to help fill the gap in budgets. The story used Oak Park's D97 as an example a few times in the story and quoted a number of PTO officers from around the district.

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Chicago-area schools turn to parents for help raising money
Guidelines adopted to guard against disparity in classroom

Hundreds of Oak Park parents cried foul last month when a school b… Continue

Just a quick reminder to everyone that tonight is the first of two forums seeking public input on selecting the next Superintendent for Oak Park Elementary School District 97. That means you! Even if you don't have kids in the school system, you might down the road and you certainly pay property taxes. Well this is your chance to be involved in deciding who runs District 97 for at least the next few years.

Tonight's meeting is at Julian Middle School @ 7PM. Tomorrow, May5th, is the second forum… Continue

Channel 7 News, with Judy Hsu reporting, did a nice story this morning on Oak Park Educations Foundation's Vex Robotics program. This is a wonderful program and it was nice to see it get some publicity.

From the online story:

For an entire school year, 80 students in the district work in teams of four. From the wheels to the arms, functionality to mobility, the kids design the robots starting from a generic kit. The rest is up to their imagination.

Much like in a real job, the teams have t… Continue

By now, most of you know that Oak Park River Forest School District 200 has filed a lawsuit against the Village of Oak Park. The lawsuit is related to a dispute over the amount of TIF money that the Village should be paying D200 (and ultimately D97 as well).

While there will be a lot of debate in the coming months about the lawsuit, I am curious what you think about the… Continue

Peter Dungey, a final year Graphic Design student at the University of Brighton, is working on a project called Pothole Gardens.

He describes it as, "an ongoing series of public installations highlighting the problem of surface imperfections on Britain's roads." Such a polite way to put it.

Anyway, I could see Oak Parkers getting into this idea and having some fun with it. East Avenue (and plenty of others) would be very colorful.

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