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Multiple expense items slated for U-46 board vote

By Seth Hancock
  The Board of Education in School District U-46 is set to vote on $3.8 million in expenditure items at its upcoming meeting on Monday, April 10. They were presented on March 20.
  Included is $3.2 million, from the operations and maintenance and health life safety funds if approved, with Bear Construction for the second phase of a renovation project to the Dream Academy and Central Schools Program (CSP).
  The proposal states renovations include “painting walls, electrostatic painting of the lockers, and removal and replacement of the vinyl tile (VCT) in all of the main hallways” as well as new science labs and prep rooms, cafeterias, classrooms, library and work room.
  With SchooLinks, the district is asking for $371,474 (education fund) which will be spent over three years.
  “SchooLinks will provide School District U-46 with a comprehensive college and career planning tool that allows us to provide efficient services to our students and families,” the proposal states.
  Costing $144,000, through federal grants, the district is seeking approval to help teachers attain bilingual and English as a second language endorsements through Northern Illinois University.
  The district is seeking to install fiber cabling to the press box at Streamwood High School’s Millennium Field at a cost of $88,696 (operations and maintenance fund) with Low Voltage Solutions. The proposal states it’s “to ensure equity among the four high school press boxes” with Millennium Field being “the only press box in the district without the capability to livestream athletic events from the stadium without additional equipment.”
  Costing $42,314 (education fund), the district is asking to renew a contract with Frontline Education “for substitute assignments and absence management” software.
  The board will also vote on a high school science curriculum proposal on updated standards. No new resources are being proposed.
  “Biology, chemistry, and physics are in the final stages of the curriculum cycle as they were adopted by the U46 School Board in 2016,” the proposal states. “Secondly, the Illinois State Science Assessment is changing its format to align with the Framework for K12 Science Education and the Next Generation Science Standards. And lastly, a recent gap analysis of the science curriculum necessitates updates to the science curriculum k-12.”