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Incumbents Amy Roser and Kelly Pyle, along with newcomers Alex Williams and Mark Adams, won seats on the board, according to vote tallies late Tuesday.
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The Democratic Party of Illinois says it’s spending an “unprecedented” $300,000 to try and swing school board races in favor of 84 candidates statewide, including four running for the Unit 5 school board on April 4.
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Despite reputation and results, Unit 5 schools will make cuts to its highly regarded music programs this fall if a referendum aimed at closing the district's $12 million funding gap fails a second time. Here's a look at the broad impact of cutting fifth grade band and orchestra.
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Informally, the candidates are grouped together by their support, or lack of support, for a referendum question on the ballot.
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There are more “sides” than is typical in a Bloomington-Normal school board election. Yet all despite those political entanglements, each candidate also has deeply personal reasons for running, in many cases shaped by their own experiences with Unit 5.
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The Unit 5 school board on Wednesday renewed its formal E-Learning Day program, a state-approved plan for how the district approaches remote learning on days when schools can’t meet in person.
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The Unit 5 school board spent more than three hours Wednesday digging into which stark cuts to potentially make — given the district’s $11 million deficit.
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Unit 5 school district leaders said Wednesday they are disappointed the education fund tax referendum did not pass on Tuesday. Superintendent Kristen Weikle tells WGLT they knew it would be a close vote, but hoped for passage to allow the district to eliminate an $11 million deficit that is growing each year.
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Unit 5 school district leaders said Wednesday they are disappointed the education fund tax referendum did not pass on Tuesday. Superintendent Kristen Weikle tells WGLT they knew it would be a close vote, but hoped for passage to allow the district to eliminate an $11 million deficit that is growing each year.
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The central argument for a Unit 5 education fund referendum is that district revenue has not kept pace with costs since the last referendum in 2008, that the district has, in effect, squeezed all the blood it can out of the existing turnip by tightening its belt and using resources efficiently and needs help. The numbers support the case.