District 58 Achieves Financial Recognition; District 99 Under Review
About 65 percent of school districts qualify for the ranking, but the number is shrinking and the number of districts on financial watch is growing.
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District 58 Achieves Financial Recognition; District 99 Under Review
About 65 percent of school districts qualify for the ranking, but the number is shrinking and the number of districts on financial watch is growing.
It's not a rare achievement—after all, 65 percent of the school districts earn "Financial Recognition"—but it's nothing to be sneezed at either, considering the direction some other Illinois school districts are heading. Downers Grove Grade School District 58 was placed in Recognition, the highest financial designation in the Illinois State Board of Education’s annual Financial Profile, for fiscal year 2012, district officials announced this week. The Financial Profile provides a snapshot in time that helps ISBE gauge school districts’ financial condition based on five indicators of financial performance: fund-balance-to-revenue ratio, expenditures-to-revenue ratio, days cash on hand, percent of short-term borrowing available, and percent …
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Tuesday, February 19, 2013
ISAT Scoring Will Change—Fewer Downers Grove Students Likely to Meet, Exceed Standards
Arbitrary "cut" scores are changing to align ISAT scores with ACT and PARCC assessments. That means students' and schools' performance grades are likely to drop in the categories of English and math.
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Eight District 58 Schools Receive Illinois Academic Excellence Awards
The Illinois State Board of Education recently recognized 454 schools for sustaining high performance levels on state assessments for the past three years.
Eight schools in Downers Grove Grade School District 58 were recently recognized by state education officials for their exemplary performance on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test from 2010 to 2012. Belle Aire, Fairmount, Highland, Hillcrest, Kingsley, Lester, Pierce Downer and Whittier schools were among the 454 schools statewide to receive the Academic Excellence Award for 2012 by sustaining high performance levels on state assessments for at least three years, according to district officials. The awards were presented by the Illinois State Board of Education. To earn the recognition, schools must meet the following criteria: The state assessments are used to measure adequate yearly progress for all public schools. District 58 …
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Friday, October 26, 2012
Teacher Salaries: Look Up How Much Downers Grove Educators Make
Find out what your child's teachers make—and see how Downers Grove compares to the rest of Illinois—by taking a peek at our database.
Sign up for Patch’s email newsletter and get all the top Downers Grove headlines in your inbox each morning. And then like us on Facebook! Editor's note: The following disclaimer is posted on the ISBE website. Due to technical or other reasons locally, some districts did not submit data each school year as required starting in 2010. Only data submitted via IWAS by the mandated deadline are included in this posting. For school years 2010 and 2011, when a July 1 reporting deadline was in effect, school districts were directed by ISBE to include in their reports payments made through June 30, 2010. As a result, projected July and August payments to individuals paid over 12 months versus 10 should not have been included. For this reason—and …
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12:08 pm on Friday, October 26, 2012
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