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Tonight at 7pm District 99 will once again violate the Illinois Open Meetings Act by holding a closed session to discuss a decided court case.  District officials said the meeting will be held in closed session because board members will be discussing litigation. Really? The exception to the OMA clearly states PENDING litigation, not decided [...]

In one of the tightest state competitions ever South finishes 1 point away from a seven-peat, and North finishes with the seventh highest point total. D99 students finished in the top five in seven different events, and South fields two state champions. Full results after the break.  Congratulations on a job well done!

Instilling dread in the competition for another year. The last weekend of Sectional competition is over, and both North and South advanced several team members as well as Performance in the Round to the State Final competition next weekend, Feb. 19-20 in Peoria IL. North advanced eight Speech team members in six solo and duet [...]

In a Jan. 20 editorial, the Reporter takes D99 to task for its delay in responding to a request for information by the Illinois Attorney General’s office. The letter from Assistant Attorney General Amanda Lundeen, dated Nov. 10, 2009, asked for a written response within 30 days to a complaint from the Reporter alleging that [...]

Editor’s note: This story first appeared Thursday night. It drew an immediate complaint from a reader who felt Greenwood should be spared the public reporting of his suspension because of his ill health and his current status as a private citizen. The reader also noted that there was never any reason to suggest Greenwood did [...]

Dr. McDonald is in the house…and case closed. Readers have probably noticed 99 Supt. Mark McDonald being kind of a calm polite center as the Board of Education’s various storms swirl around.  The guy is imperturbable as near as I can tell.  Efficient too. He made a point of letting DGreport know that officials of [...]

Updating a couple boat-anchor issues that continue to highlight D99′s BOE problems, but could see some movement in the near future after years of inaction. Recording meetings. School Board member Deb Boyle got her chance to bring up recording open school board meetings at the 9/14 workshop.  It would entail putting up a video or [...]

The D99 published meeting minutes for 7/20 (that were approved on 8/15) contain factual errors that would have been prevented with an accurate recording or verbatim minutes record of the meeting. -There was not a first public Reception of Visitors (listed as item 4. on the minutes).  Board President Julia Beckman asked the public to [...]

Everyone behave.  Or else. That’s the vibe I got from the beginning of the Aug. 17 school board meeting.  Dr. McDonald apparently has pretty much had his fill of bad behavior, and read off a statement saying no one he knew of did anything untoward about grad speeches specifically in 2007.  He’s been a straight [...]

Found in Trib Local, right next to yet another D99 story about how Boyle is the problem.