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In June 2023, the Village of Oak Park Board of Trustees adopted an electrification ordinance as part of the building code. The ordinance requires any new building constructed after January 1, 2024, to be fully electric. This means there will be no natural gas hookups within the structure.
Six middle-school teachers are celebrating successes.Laura Stamp, eighth-grade science teacher at Brooks Middle School, won a prestigious Fulbright Teacher Exchange award to Vietnam.Stamp, who plans to conduct research on climate change education, is one of 20 educators from the United States selected for the 2023-24 award cycle. She is a National Board Certified teacher with nearly 25 years of experience. She teaches a climate change class at Brooks.Under the Fulbright, K-12 educators from the United States conduct research and engage in professional learning experiences abroad for three to six months. Stamp will be doing her research from January to March of 2024. She plans to visit rural and urban schools with a goal to develop a project with a school in which her eighth-graders will be able to interact with students in Vietnam.
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