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The plan highlights improving academic outcomes, maintaining strong staff, and connecting to the community. In addition to a unanimously positive vote, the board praised the plan as a living document to account for unforeseen changes.
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The Unit 5 school board will vote on the $232.9 million budget next month, followed by the district setting an annual tax levy in December.
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While a few of the approximate 35 attendees spoke explicitly for or against the referendum, far more were interested in details of the district’s financial strategy.
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Bloomington-Normal's next big thing in playgrounds is all but complete — a $5 million, 16-acre natural playground at Colene Hoose Elementary School in Normal.
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With Unit 5 serving over 12,000 students, that number only growing larger, and the budget getting smaller each year, the school board has turned to the community to help them determine the future of the schools.
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Unit 5 and District 87 schools in Bloomington-Normal are keeping kids at home for at least the next two days as a severe winter storm moves into Illinois.
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A Unit 5 school board meeting with a light agenda ended up lasting more than two hours Wednesday night, after social media attention to an illustrated LGBTQ memoir led to passionate public commenters sharing views on the matter.
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The Unit 5 school board heard a report Wednesday night detailing how a new air-cleaning system installed in district buildings is being used as a pandemic mitigation strategy.
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Unit 5 leaders say the district's proposed budget has a $12.5 million structural deficit, but that’s about 20 percent, or $3.5 million, less than projected.
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Unit 5 is anticipating next year to look a lot more like a regular school year. But that may not be good news for all families.