Local activists from Moms Demand Action gun control group have moved on to Oak Park and River Forest High School urging the school to send out information to parents about safe gun storage. A few weeks after appearing at an Oak Park Elementary District 97 school board meeting to urge District 97 to send parents information about safe gun storage, Oak Park resident Jenna Leving Jacobson delivered the same message to the OPRF in a public comment she made at the Sept. 21 meeting of the OPRF school board.Jacobson said that schools sending out information about safe gun storage can save lives.“We need to make sure that youth in our community do not have unsupervised access to firearms,” Jacobson said.Jacobson wants school districts to take advantage of a new state law that permits them to provide safety information including information about safe gun storage.“Educating adults about firearm storage is important,” Jacobson said.Jacobson cited a CDC study that showed that 20% of high
Three new members of the school board at Oak Park and River Forest High School were sworn in last week. Tim Brandhorst, Graham Brisben and Jonathan Livingston took their nearly 5-minute-long oath of office on May 11 as the school board bid adieu to Gina Harris, Ralph Martire and Sara Dixon Spivy.
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Amy Warke, superintendent of La Grange Highlands School District 106, left in December under the terms of a separation agreement. (Google Maps)
LA GRANGE HIGHLANDS, IL The superintendent of La Grange Highlands School District 106 left in December under the terms of a separation agreement. The circumstances of her departure remain largely a mystery.
At the school board s Dec. 23 meeting, members approved a separation agreement with Amy Warke, who started as superintendent in July 2019.
Warke was absent from three board meetings in a row in November and December. The last time she appeared at a board meeting was Nov. 17, according to meeting minutes. These absences happened during a time of heightened scrutiny for school districts as they navigated the pandemic.