Palatine District 15 ends talks of new school in shopping center Palatine Township Elementary District 15 officials have called off a deal to but a vacant portion of the Park Place shopping center in Palatine for use as a new school. There hasn t been a scenario with Park Place that makes any sense at all in a very long time, board President Linda Szczupaj said. Daily Herald File Photo, 2018
Updated 2/11/2021 6:35 PM
Palatine Township Elementary District 15 board members voted unanimously Wednesday to terminate a purchase agreement for part of a Palatine shopping center, ending long-debated plans to build a new school there.
The board has spent more than two years considering a plan to locate the district s 21st school at the Park Place shopping center, on the southwest corner of Rand and Dundee roads. After extensions of the agreement to further review the plan and needs for a new school, the board was facing a Feb. 15 deadline to either call off the deal
Updated 1/13/2021 5:53 AM
Some suburban school districts went back to in-person learning after the winter break, and more will be doing so in the coming weeks, some with added tools such as COVID-19 testing for staffs.
Students in Palatine Township Elementary District 15 and Oak Grove Elementary District 68 were back last week after a pause for all-virtual learning between Thanksgiving and winter break. Algonquin-based Community Unit District 300 restarted with a hybrid learning model Monday.
Barrington Area Unit District 220, whose students had all-virtual learning this school year with the exception of a few days in late October, will implement hybrid learning starting Jan. 19. Libertyville-Vernon Hills Area High School District 128 will do the same.
Updated 12/18/2020 12:03 PM
Students in Palatine Township Elementary District 15 will return to in-person learning Jan. 5 as anticipated, but the district is asking families to consider having students quarantine if their winter break activities put them at increased risk for contracting COVID-19.
Families will continue to have the option to keep their children in all-virtual learning.
Superintendent Laurie Heinz said in an email to parents Friday that the district will not extend its adaptive paused that started after Thanksgiving because data shows that, with appropriate measures, schools are not a primary ssource of spread of the respiratory disease.
Those measures include masks, social distancing, hand washing and sanitation.
Reopening debate fuels school board candidacies in Northwest suburbs
School board candidates from across the suburbs lined up early Monday to be among the first to file paperwork with the Cook County clerk s office at Old Orchard Country Club in Mount Prospect. Rick West | Staff Photographer
Updated 12/15/2020 7:40 PM
Amid the heated debates in recent months over school reopenings, some Northwest suburban school districts are seeing larger-than-usual fields of candidates who intend to run for their local school boards in April.
More than 480 school board candidates submitted paperwork on the first official filing day Monday across four locations set up by the Cook County clerk s office. That included 140 candidates who stood in line to hand in their petitions at Old Orchard Country Club in Mount Prospect.