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Expense proposals primed for Dist. U-46 board vote
By Seth Hancock
The Board of Education in School District U-46 is set to vote on $6 million in expenditure items at its upcoming meeting on Monday, June 20.
The items were presented on June 6.
Included are three curriculum proposals, two with expenditure items. The integrated math curriculum proposal for Bartlett High School has no costs with resources already in the district.
An Advanced Placement (AP) Spanish literature resource proposal has a cost of $77,270, from the education fund if approved, with Wayside Publishing. A proposal for resources and professional development from Follett, split between Title II funs ($16,867) and education funds ($13,048), is for an African American studies proposal.
Items presented largely came from the education fund, the largest being $499,990 with Warehouse Direct, Garvey’s and Frank Cooney for library furniture at five schools and $483,529 for a three-year contract renewal with Blackboard.
Several testing items were presented including $392,065 with the College Board for AP exams, $228,000 with Northwest Evaluation Association for MAP tests, $79,469 with the College Board for PSAT tests, $52,092 with Riverside Insight for CogAT tests and $40,000 with LTI for Assessment of Performance toward Proficiency in Languages exams.
The district is asking for $369,985 with CDW-G for Google Workspace Education Plus, $216,176 with DeMoulin for South Elgin High School marching band uniforms, $141,286 with JX Truck Center for a distribution center truck replacement, $138,919 with Estrellita and Scholastic for reading intervention resources, $130,304 with CDW-G for Microsoft licenses and $51,930 with Microsystems, Inc. to convert former employee files to a digital format.
Also, from the education fund is $75,000 to provide a stipend to up to 10 teacher candidates from Tennessee State University, a historically Black college.
“The targeted and deliberate partnership with TSU is designed to create a partnership that leads to a workforce that more closely represents the district’s student body, thereby fulfilling the language of both Board policies,” the proposal states.
Items to be paid for by the nation’s taxpayers through grant funds is $1.7 million with 13 vendors for speech and language therapists, $336,760 with two vendors for school psychology services, $226,642 with Johnson Controls for middle school camera installation, $203,000 with Geneva Hearing Services for audiology services, $176,354 with Northwest Illinois Association for hearing and vision supervision and services, $153,747 for News2You online resources and $141,617 with Data Recognition Corporation for the LAS Links assessment for dual language.
One operations and maintenance fund item was presented, $160,921 to Brightly Software for work order software.