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Dist. U-46 Board approves expense, curriculum items

By Seth Hancock
  The Board of Education in School District U-46 unanimously approved, of $431,437 in expenditure and curriculum items at its Monday, March 6 meeting.
  The highest costing item was $137,600, from the education fund, for renewal of MUNIS software, used for human resources, from Tyler Technologies.
  Costing $116,740 (education fund), the board approved a contract with Group Travel Planners to allow up to 100, up from 42 last year, Black students from Elgin, Larkin and Streamwood high schools to tour historically black colleges over the summer.
  From n2y, LLC, the board approved $69,839 from federal grant funds for math manipulative kits.
  The proposal states that “adding math manipulatives for multisensory learning experiences will allow us to provide a fully comprehensive math curriculum for students with significant intellectual disabilities and unique learning needs. The resources are differentiated and allow for an additional visual and tactile experience to accommodate the needs of learners with significant disabilities.”
  A contract costing $41,430 (education fund) with Avid CNA School was also approved.
  “This year, Streamwood High School was unable to hire an instructor for the CNA Program,” the proposal stated. “This is a capstone course for students in a Healthcare Science Pathway and can culminate with an industry credential. In order to ensure access to this valuable career preparation opportunity, we have partnered with Avid CNA, which is a local CNA training school to offer instruction and the clinical experience. Instruction will be provided in a hybrid model that includes both in-person and synchronous remote instruction.”
  Two curriculum items were approved including one to add two integrated math, contemporary world issues, business for entrepreneurs and appreneurship courses at Streamwood High School’s magnet academy. It has a six-year estimated cost of $65,828.
  A middle school science curriculum proposal was approved. Ratified were new standards with no new resources proposed.
  Seventh-graders units will include “Weather and Climate, Matter: Structure & Properties, Chemical Reaction, Cells to Organisms, Reproduction and Heredity and Artificial Selection, and Earth’s Systems,” the proposal states. Eighth grade will include “the History of the Earth, Natural Selection, Waves, Electric and Magnetic Forces, Energy Transfer, and Human Impacts.”
  Also approved 7-0 was $5.9 million in itemized bills.