Wednesday, March 27, 2013
The Consolidated High School District 230 board also gave the go ahead for IDOT to buy land to then widen LaGrange Road, which is expected to begin later this year.
The Consolidated High School District 230 Board of Trustees unanimously approved a 15-item list of repairs, updates and renovations for all three high schools during the March 20 meeting. A total of $1,717,000 worth of repairs were green lighted for Chicago-based Poulos, Inc., which was the lowest bid out of eight, according to school district documents. The repairs include main office alterations and asbestos removal at Stagg, media center alterations on both the first and second floors at Andrew, tennis court resurfacing and cashier’s office alterations at Sandburg, and new gym floors installed at both Stagg and Sandburg. Read the attached document for a full list of repairs and their individual costs. The board also approved selling …
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
The Consolidated High School District 230 administration is looking to create an advisory/resource period for all students by starting studies at 8 a.m. instead of 8:30 a.m. beginning in August.
In effort to extend tutoring and other services beyond class work help, Consolidated High School District 230 administrators are planning to start school days 30 minutes earlier during the 2013-2014 school year. Freshmen and sophomores at Carl Sandburg High School, Amos Alonzo Stagg High School and Victor J. Andrew High School now have access to a 25-minute advisory period during the day with the same teacher, but the change would expand the program to all students and also add variety to the study period. READ: Go to D230's Website for More About the Schedule Change With current bus schedules, not all students can take advantage of the program, said D135 spokesperson Carla Erdey. “We’re looking at making sure the same opportunities are …
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Victor J. Andrew High School
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Tuesday, February 26, 2013
A police search for a robbery suspect forced a soft lockdown in area schools Tuesday, following a bank robbery at 167th and 80th Avenue.
Update, as of 11:47 a.m. Area schools were on soft lockdown Tuesday afternoon, as Tinley Park Police searched for a suspect in a bank robbery. Police were looking for a white male, approximately 6 feet tall, wearing a grey hoodie, black hat and dark pants, who is suspected of robbing First Midwest Bank at 167th Street and 80th Avenue Tuesday around 10:15 a.m., according to Tinley Park Police Cmdr. Steve Vaccaro. The suspect did not infer or display a weapon during the robbery, Vaccaro said. He was last seen on foot, heading westbound from the bank. Tinley Park police officers were unable to find him. The incident has been turned over to the FBI. Update, as of 11:40 a.m. Victor J. Andrew and District 140 schools are no longer on soft …
Friday, September 28, 2012
A plan meant to balance out enrollment among District 230 high school has irked Community Consolidated School District 146 parents with students who in three years will only be able to attend Victor J. Andrew High School.
Rami Jreisat thinks its unfair that certain students bound for Consolidated High School District 230 will keep the ability to choose between high school while others won't. The 42-year-old resident of the Catilina neighborhood in Orland Park counts his three children currently attending Arnold W. Kruse Education Center among those who lost the benefit of an "option zone," which allowed students in two areas to choose between two D230 high schools. In fact, the reason his family moved to Orland Park was to provide his children the opportunity to attend Orland schools. "We're being pushed out," Jreisat said. "They took away our choice." District 230 board members unanimously voted in favor of a plan that maintains a zone where Palos …
Monday, September 17, 2012
A proposed plan to move students with the option to attend Sandburg, to Stagg and Andrew has sparked opposition among would-be affected residents.
Updated, Sept. 17, 2012 About 650 residents have signed a petition against a proposed Consolidated High School District 230 attendance plan that would direct students in two areas to have one high school option, as of Sunday night. The plan includes placing students from Community Consolidated District 146’s Central Middle School strictly at Victor J. Andrew High School upon entering high school, and also dissolving an option zone around Carl Sandburg High School where Palos South Middle School students would be directed only to Amos Alonzo Stagg High School. Students from both middle schools have the option to study at Sandburg, and would continue to be able to for the next three classes of incoming freshmen under the plan. Starting with …
Monday, November 7, 2011
The school district is above state averages in a number of categories, but is technically not meeting federal standards. Patch talks with district staff about No Child Left Behind's goals that are eluding nearly all Illinois schools.
Progress can be a relative concept. One of the requirements of No Child Left Behind legislation is for each public school district to report test scores, finance data and other information that detail the district’s performance. Last week, school district report cards were released, which describe various stats from financing, to census-like school composition and test scores. But whether a school is successful based on these benchmarks depends on how the data is read. When looking at the individual pieces of Consolidated School District 230’s report, the district ranks above the state averages for ACT, Prairie State Achievement Exam and Illinois Alternate Assessment test scores in 2011. The PSAE and IAA numbers are percentages of students…
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Friday, May 27, 2011
Recent Andrew High School grad Austin Gomez recollects on recently graduating, and why it took so long to realize it.
A week ago, I was spending my final days at Victor J. Andrew High School saying farewell to teachers and students alike as well as anticipating the long-awaited senior checkout. At that point, if the impact of graduating high school was going to hit me, it definitely wasn’t going to hit me then. As far as I was concerned, the following Wednesday set itself up to be a normal, nothing-special Wednesday. After this past Wednesday, however, I can say that I don’t think I’ve ever been hit that hard in my life (and it’s a good thing that I’m speaking metaphorically). On that Wednesday, I did next to nothing to anticipate graduation later on that night. I woke up to a bowl of Fruity Pebbles, which has been my customary breakfast for the past week…
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Was it worth months of toiling and expenses? Senior Austin Gomez decides whether or not VJA's prom was a flop.
All month, Andrew High School senior Austin Gomez has been charting his prom preparation, from nabbing a date via YouTube over to picking a boring but socially appropriate tux all the way to the last-minute checklist the day of the dance. With the prom over, Austin looks back to see if all the time and money ($200 for tickets alone) was worth it. ... A week or so before prom, I honestly felt the probability of buyer’s remorse was high. Sure, high school dances are fun and all, but after a while, I began to feel as if they became obligations for being a high school student. It's sort of like when the nice ladies at Costco beckon out for unsuspecting customers to try their free samples; I know I can just continue my wholesale experience, but…
Monday, April 18, 2011
The Penguins have proven for 10 years that you don't have to go to England to get into an old-fashioned scrum.
As an offensive lineman on the Lincoln-Way East High School football team, Ross Nolan worked to help his team score last fall. On Friday, Nolan scored two tries of his own to help the Lincoln-Way Penguins rugby club beat Brother Rice 19-7 in Mokena. “As an offensive lineman, I don’t get to score often,” Nolan said. “So, those first two tries were a lot of fun.” Nolan is playing rugby this spring for the first time. Having already committed to play football a Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Nolan wanted to do something during the spring to stay in shape, keep motivated and have fun. Rugby has been the perfect fit. “It’s been a blast out there,” he said. “And this was just my fourth game playing.” The Lincoln-Way Penguins are celebrating …
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Monday, April 11, 2011
Victor J. Andrew High School senior Austin Gomez rounds up some of the clever ways his classmates asked their dates to prom. Austin will be charting his own path to prom on Patch.
In middle school, asking a girl to the eighth-grade dance proved itself to be the epitome of awkwardness for a guy. In high school, however, asking a date to homecoming or turnabout isn't nearly as harrowing. Come the time when most teenagers come out of their shells, the ideas behind asking as a date for prom become much more inventive and less panic-attack inducing. Now that prom is rearing its head around the corner, it's time to up the ante on ways to ask. Simplicity may have been a virtue for any of the previous dances, but several students at seniors at Victor J. Andrew High School have already chosen to ask their dates in extravagantly original ways for prom: As for me, I decided that the greatest way to ask my girlfriend would be …
WALTER MARZEC
6:56 pm on Thursday, March 28, 2013
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