Bremen High School District Board of Education President Deb Stearns will stay on the April 9 ballot, after the district's education officers electoral board voted to dismiss several challenges to her candidacy.
Bremen High School District Board of Education President Deb Stearns will stay on the April 9 ballot, after the district's education officers electoral board voted to dismiss several challenges to her candidacy.
Bremen High School District 228 Board of Education President Deb Stearns will remain on the April 9 ballot, following the dismissal of a challenge to her candidacy. At a Jan. 23 special meeting of the D228 Education Officers Electoral Board, members dismissed resident Steve Szabo's challenge due to a, "failure to state the interest of the objector," one of five motions Stearns's lawyer made to dismiss the challenge at a meeting earlier in January. “The courts have said there doesn't have to be much of one, but you've got to have one,” said Mike Davies, president pro-temp of the board. “When I review Mr. Szabo's objection, I don't see anything that resembles, or comes close to resembling that issue.” Szabo was not present at the Jan. 23 …
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Anthony Fiorenzo, a former Bremen High School District 228 substitute teacher, says he was terminated from his position Jan. 9, over a discussion with Board of Education President Deb Stearns. Now, Fiorenzo is contemplating legal action.
A former Bremen High School District 228 substitute teacher is contemplating legal action against the district, following his termination Jan. 9. Anthony Fiorenzo, who worked as a sub in the district for three years, claims he was fired from his job following a dialogue with board president Deb Stearns, regarding a Facebook post that depicted the district's students in an unfavorable light. The post depicted students from each of the four high schools in various scenarios, labeled with the schools' names. “The Oak Forest children in the picture were all Caucasian students sitting for a class picture, the Hillcrest photo was a photo of the Hillcrest basketball team, the photo of the Bremen students depicted kids drinking and partying, …
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4:26 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Seems to me like he isn't saying because it didn't play out the way he is trying to say it did. more ›
District 228 Board of Education President Deb Stearns filed for candidacy for the April 9 election. Her petition to appear on the ballot is being challenged by Ron Szabo. The matter was continued to Jan. 23 during a hearing Jan. 11.
Bremen High School District 228 school board president Deb Stearns and the rest of the school district community will have to wait a little longer to find out if she will be on the April 9 ballot. Resident Ronald Szabo objected to her candidacy, and appeared before the district's Education Officers Electoral Board on Friday, Jan. 11. During the special meeting of the electoral board, Stearns's lawyer, John Murphy, outlined a motion to dismiss Ron Szabo's objections to her candidacy. Murphy spent the majority of the nearly half-hour meeting explaining why the electoral board should dismiss the objections before answering questions from the board about his motion. Murphy said there were several reasons to dismiss the challenge, the first …
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11:45 pm on Saturday, February 23, 2013
What have you accomplished by attending your bored meeting??? Let's have a public debate on the issues of D228. Their meetings are scripted with much bad acting. I would like to see people using the web to debate specific issues. What can you tell me about their drastic changes in curriculum. I recently heard Bremen's class of 2013 will have an average ACT of 17, That bothers me. I want to change… more ›
MacBride Sandburg
3:01 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
Williams is an elitist-only cares about the top 5% that is why Bremen and Hillcrest are never EVER part her plans for improvement. This is a Kendall hire-another paid assasin who does the dirty work for him. Someone should ask what Stearns, Kendall and the other stooges have done to help Hillcrest rather than condemn them.... more ›