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Various U-46 expenses approved by board vote


By Seth Hancock
  Resources promoting LGBTQ issues for kindergarten to 12th grade students in School District U-46 were approved among $6.6 million in expenditure proposals by a unanimous vote from the Board of Education at its meeting on Monday, Aug. 3 which was held electronically due to the COVID-19 shutdown.
  Those resources came under a four-year contract renewal with Gale costing $397,158 which will be paid from the education fund.
  Gale “currently provides databases and eBooks at the elementary, middle, and high school levels,” the proposal states.
  “Upon renewal of services, our students and staff will gain access to updated databases and eBooks that will include new collections such as social emotional (SEL) eBooks that address a variety of topics including anxiety, depression, diversity, equity, and the contributions of LGBTQ individuals in American history, as required by recent Illinois legislation, mandated to begin July 1, 2020,” the proposal states.
  The nation’s taxpayers, through federal grants, will spend $2.5 million for speech therapists through 17 separate agencies or individuals. The contract renewals are up from $2.1 million.
  Also, through federal grants are contract renewals with three agencies costing $579,189 (up from $543,058) for occupational therapists, a renewal with Center for Psychological Services costing $203,500 (down from $208,081), a renewal with Maxim Health and Mediscan Staffing for social worker service costing $192,863 (down from $203,500), a renewal with Gorbold Behavioral Consulting, Inc. for specialized student services consultants costing $85,000 (up from $75,000) and a renewal with McGraw Hill for reading mastery and corrective reading resources costing $34,747 (down from $42,694).
  A three-year contract renewal with Automatic Building Controls, LLC will cost $1.3 million (operations and maintenance fund) for a HVAC services plan covering 39 buildings. The cost is up from $898,203.
  Costing $1.2 million (education plan), the board approved a three-year contract renewal for Newsela resource. The annual cost of $388,000 is up from $228,000 annually when the resource was adopted in 2015.
  “Newsela curates libraries of online articles leveled to 5 differentiated text levels, with additional optional comprehension assessments, vocabulary acquisition, content engagement, and data tracking in English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Social and Emotional Learning for students in grades 2-12,” the proposal states.
  A three-year contract renewal with Turnitin costing $168,762 (education fund) was approved. The annual cost, $56,254, is up from $40,850 last year.
  “Turnitin provides teachers and students an electronic submission platform where students can receive immediate feedback from a combination of methods, including a peer review system, teacher feedback system, automated grammar feedback, and its signature originality checker and feedback system,” the proposal states.
  Also unanimously approved was $16.7 million in itemized bills as well as a personnel report and workers’ compensation cases which included one workman’s comp case costing $33,252 for an elementary principal.

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