TribLocal Northbrook - 11 2 September 2010
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Administrators: Glenview schools missed targets
By Jeff Danna
TRIBLOCAL REPORTER
Homes and other industrial operations occupy the proposed site of an asphalt plant in Northbrook. TribLocal photo by Jeff Danna
Asphalt company pulls plant proposal
By Jeff Danna
TRIBLOCAL REPORTER
A plan for an asphalt plant in Northbrook has crumbled. Builders Asphalt LLC, which was pursuing the plant on Old Willow Road, sent a letter Monday to the village of Northbrook stating that amid growing opposition from nearby residents, the company was with-
drawing its petition. “While Builders Asphalt understands the concerns expressed we are not confident in our ability to overcome the opposition necessary to obtain approval,” said the letter, which is posted on the village’s Web site. The plant was to be located in a pocket of Northbrook south of Willow Road that was
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Four Glenview schools failed to clear benchmarks to achieve adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind law in 2009-10, school district officials said this week. As a result, principals at Attea, Glen Grove, Hoffman and Pleasant Ridge schools in Glenview Public School District 34 are now required to devise action plans for bringing some students’ standardized test scores up to par in the next year. And at Hoffman, a school that receives federal Title 1 grants to serve disadvantaged students, parents will have the option of sending their children to a different school this year. District officials said that data trends had shown for some time that a few student subgroups might not make adequate yearly progress in 2010, and programs were put in place to prepare. ”We’ve been proactive for several years,” said Kathleen Hart, assistant superintendent for student services. “It was a real possibility some students might not meet the percentage.” In all, schools did not meet adequate yearly progress in eight areas, the most since No Child Left Behind went into effect in 2001, Hart said. Students with disabilities at Attea, Glen
Grove, Hoffman and Pleasant Ridge did not meet benchmarks in reading, while the same group of students did not make sufficient progress in math at Attea and Glen Grove. Low income students at Attea also did not meet academic goals, along with students with limited English proficiency at Hoffman. The state data were provided by District 34 and presented at Monday’s board of education meeting even though the Illinois State Board of Education has not yet released the information, district officials said. Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, states are required to measure the achievements of individual schools and school districts. Illinois uses scores on the Illinois Standards Achievement Test and the Illinois Alternative Assessment to measure progress. Schools had high hurdles to overcome in the past year, Glenview administrators said. They attributed the adequate yearly progress data to the lofty goals. More than 77 percent of students in various subgroups had to meet or exceed standards, although smaller percentages were required for subgroups with fewer students. District 34 is no stranger to working to improve the test scores of lower perform
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