District 46 Residents Turn Out for Citizens' Strike Forum
The often outspoken, self-proclaimed education watchdog Lennie Jarratt hosted a town hall-style meeting Wednesday to talk about District 46's financial woes and the teacher strike.
About 30 residents attended an informal meeting Wednesday night at Grayslake's State Bank of the Lakes to hear Lennie Jarratt, founder of the citizens' group "For Our Children's Future," present his ideas for District 46's financial sustainability and to discuss the teacher strike, which is headed into a second day. The goal of his organization, said Jarratt, is to find "out-of-the-box solutions" to school district finance problems. Referring to the District 46 teacher strike, Jarratt presented slides detailing the contract proposals of the union and school board. He said he believed both sides were "at fault" for allowing negotiations to turn into a full-on strike. "It's a power play to me," he said. Jarratt, a one-time senate candidate …
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12:56 pm on Wednesday, January 23, 2013
350 people showed up Sunday in the freezing cold to support the teachers of their district. That’s: • 10 times the number that showed up for either of the For Our Children’s Future town halls. • 10 times the number, on average, that shows up to BOE meetings. • 5 times the number that have ever shown up for a BOE meeting (in recent history). 30 local business showed their support for the teachers … more ›