Skokie Voice Residents' Association would like to invite the community to the 2nd annual community forum on Skokie public schools entitled "Our taxes, our schools" on Thursday, Nov. 15 from 7-9 p.m. at Oakton Community Center - 4701 Oakton St.
The outstanding quality of Skokie public schools has drawn families to our community for decades.
Join us for an evening that will address how Skokie school districts levy taxes and allocate resources in challenging economic times.
There will be a panel discussion with respresentatives from the Skokie school districts along with the Niles Township Assessor. An open-microphone Q&A will follow the panel discussion.
Put the schools forum on your agenda and be part of the dialogue about one of Skokie's greatest assets!
s.n.
12:59 pm on Thursday, November 15, 2012
our school are not the quality they were 10 years ago thats for sure i know because i see the difference in the education my kids are getting now as to what they received back then.
liliana fargo
11:10 am on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
OPEN LETTER TO DISTRICT 65 (Nov.20.2012)
Superintendent Murphy,
I am one of many parents that see with GREAT FRUSTRATION that our local school system continuously take extra days off (like the day Before Thanksgiving) and frequent partial school days, with TOTAL DISREGARD for the fact that many of us are hard working parents, and that in many cases both parents need to work full time to make ends meet, and to comply with the increasing local taxes imposed by local entities like the school districts, plus the fact that kids are missing the opportunity of education on those days.
You could argue that the calendar system is not under your direct control, but I sincerely hope that you could make school administrators aware of this growing concern, specially at times when they make decisions on raising even more our local taxes in order to cover Pension and Health care benefits for school workers.
I am certainly not alone in this frustration, and I am willing to gather support for a change, if no response by school officials to this concern is perceived.
Regards,
Dr. Liliana N. Fargo
LilianaFargo@Yahoo.com