Homewood School District 153 approved its 2017 tax levy of $14.4 million at the Dec. 11 board of education meeting. The district expects to collect an additional $400,000 over last year’s receipts. It is holding the increase within the required tax cap limitations. The amount stays within the 2.1 percent[Read More…]
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Homewood schools take long view with five-year plan
Homewood District 153 is preparing a path to the future through a new five-year strategic plan. The process began this school year with more than 400 responses to a survey, answered primarily by parents. 85 percent believed children in the district are receiving a good education for their tax dollars[Read More…]
Marian Lazan reaches the young generation
Addison Trotter, 9, of Homewood, gets a hug from Holocaust survivor Marion Blumenthal Lazan during the question and answer session following Kazan’s presentation about her experiences in a Nazi concentration camp. Kazan’s visit in Homewood was sponsored by District 153 and community contributors and was held at James Hart[Read More…]
Home rule could help District 153 schools meet its budget shortfall
Homewood District 153 anticipates a $760,000 windfall to its budget if Homewood residents support the home rule initiative. The village board is proposing to raise the sales tax by 0.25 percent and give the additional revenue to the other taxing bodies in Homewood — School Districts 153, 161 and 233,[Read More…]
‘Those Who Excel’ honors presented to District 153 staff and volunteer Richard Thiernau
Twelve staff members and a community volunteer in Homewood District 153 were honored at the 2017 Illinois State Board of Education’s “Those Who Excel” educator recognition program awards ceremony Oct. 28.
Grant helps Hart School teacher enhance reading materials
James Hart School teacher Jennifer Wolf is going to be redesigning her sixth grade classroom reading library using a grant from the Illinois Retired Teachers Association Foundation.
Technology will help Hart students create and study music
Soon there will be a new way for students at James Hart School in Homewood to make music. Over the summer, Emily Kasper, Matt Johnson and Adrienne Olsen, music faculty at Hart, designed a new curriculum that will have sixth, seventh and eighth graders using technology to explore and create[Read More…]
Homewood District 153 budget will balance with referendum funds
The District 153 school board approved a balanced 2018 budget of $22.26 million because of an additional $640,000 raised in the 2016 referendum. Revenues, expected at $21.62 million, cannot meet all the expenses despite the administration’s best attempts at holding the line on costs. The board unanimously approved the budget[Read More…]
Homewood music icon William Luke dies
When Elaine Egdorf, chairwoman of the Homewood Heritage Committee, asked all former students of William Luke to raise their hands, half the people in the banquet hall at Calumet Country Club did so. The occasion was the 2014 Homewood Hall of Fame induction luncheon Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014, and Luke was[Read More…]
Homewood schools will begin work on new strategic plan
The District 153 Board of Education has agreed with a proposal from Superintendent Dale Mitchell to embark on a new strategic plan for the district. The last plan was developed in 2012. “I think it’s a good time to do it,” Mitchell said when making the presentation to hire R.J.M.[Read More…]