This is a look at how the members of the School District U46 Board voted Monday on seven controversial curriculum and spending issues. All seven measures were approved.
To buy new curriculum materials for Secondary Language Arts for use in 2015-2016 school year:
YES – Traci O’Neal Ellis, Sue Kerr, Veronica Noland, Donna Smith
NO – Phil Costello, Cody Holt, Jeanette Ward
To adopt a new Secondary Reading Curriculum in 2015-2016 school year:
YES — Unanimous
For early implementers to start teaching Eureka Math in middle school during 2015-2016 school year:
YES — Unanimous
For early implementers to start teaching a new science curriculum in grades K-8 during 2015-2016 school year:
YES — Ellis, Holt, Kerr, Noland, Smith
NO — Costello, Ward
To begin a Precision Manufacturing curriculum in high schools during the 2016-2017 school year:
YES — Costello, Ellis, Holt, Noland, Smith, Ward
NO — Kerr
To buy new curriculum materials for Advanced Placement courses during the 2015-2016 school year:
YES — Costello, Ellis, Kerr, Noland, Smith
NO — Holt, Ward
To lease space in the Jayne Shover Easter Seals Center building for expansion of the preschool program in 2015-2016 school year:
YES — Ellis, Kerr, Noland, Smith
NO — Costello, Holt, Ward
