This election season, the airwaves, print publications and social media are full of information, but beware – not all of it is true. Barbara Laimins, co-chair of the League of Women Voters of Illinois task force on the proliferation of misinformation and disinformation, said there is a way to sort[Read More…]
Education
H-F senior awarded $25,000 scholarship
Homewood-Flossmoor High School senior Elliot Simpson was named a Horatio Alger National Scholar and will receive a $25,000 scholarship. Simpson is still in his college search, but he’s impressed with Purdue University-Indianapolis and Clark College, an HBCU in Atlanta. He’s been consulting with his counselor, Karen Olson, since his sophomore[Read More…]
District 233 board approves two employee contracts
The District 233 school board unanimously approved three-year contracts with the Homewood-Flossmoor Education Organization, the teachers union, and HFCSO representing clerical staff, at its Sept. 17 meeting. The teachers’ contract doesn’t provide a flat amount increase to all Homewood-Flossmoor High School staff covered by the contract. Increases were based on[Read More…]
D161 takes precautions after potential social media threat
In a letter dated Sept. 19 and addressed to District 161 students, parents and staff, Superintendent Dana Smith informed the community of a “TikTok video circulating with threatening language against Parker Junior High School.” “We received a report from the Safe2Help tipline,” Smith wrote. “After investigating the incident with the[Read More…]
Hart School named in unfounded social media threat
A note District 153 Superintendent Scott McAlister sent to parents shortly after 9 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 19, alerted them to a social media threat to James Hart School in Homewood. Parents and students alerted school officials about a TikTok video and an Instagram post with a threat to the[Read More…]
Referendum funds are helping wipe out District 153’s deficit
The District 153 school board adopted a $37.85 million budget at its Monday, Sept. 16, meeting. Superintendent Scott McAlister said the community’s approval of the 2022 referendum that increased the education fund means the district has been able to start eliminating the deficit, improve its aging facilities and replenish a[Read More…]
H-F students performing The Wizard of Oz on Sept. 26, 27, 28
Homewood-Flossmoor High School Theatre Department presents the classic children’s play “The Wizard of Oz” that will have audiences enjoying their trip down the yellow brick road at 7 p.m. Thursday and Friday, Sept. 26 and 27, and at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28, in the Performing Arts Center. The magical[Read More…]
Outside group altercation impacts H-F band practice
An altercation by supporters of basketball teams playing at Homewood-Flossmoor High School’s North Building Monday night caused H-F Vikings band members to leave the football field where they were practicing and move to the band room in the South Building. According to Carla Erdey, director of communications at H-F, the[Read More…]
D161 Board prepares for budget hearing
At the Sept. 9 meeting, the District 161 Board of Education continued a discussion about the proposed 2024-25 school year budget. The board considered three options presented by Associate Superintendent Frances LaBella. The first option was to freeze the 2024 property tax levy and reduce budgeted revenues. The second option[Read More…]
D161 recognizes Parker students for lunchroom mural
At a Sept. 9 meeting, the Flossmoor District 161 Board of Education recognized a group of Parker Junior High students for a mural and other artwork they painted. Last spring, district administrators commissioned art students from the school to paint a mural in the newly renovated Parker Junior High cafeteria.[Read More…]
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