Post by warriorpride on Feb 26, 2006 13:58:45 GMT -6
stop204 said:
The following appeared in the Naperville SUNCity plan cut number of District 204 students
I wanted to take this opportunity to respond to Joni Hirsch-Blackman's Cul-de-sacs column in The Naperville Sun on Jan. 29 regarding Indian Prairie School District 204 and the recent boundary and referendum discussions. Within her article, she placed the blame for too many students on a previous Naperville City Council decision that changed Sector G planning and yielded more residential development, which in turn, she stated, is why a need for a third high school exists within District 204.
It is my obligation to respond to her comments and to clarify. When the Sector G plan update was approved by the City Council in 1994, the plan reclassified hundreds of acres of residential land to business parks and open space, thus reducing, and not increasing, the number of schoolchildren to be generated in the area.
As a result of a comprehensive planning process, the Southwest Sector Plan replaced the Sector G plan and was adopted by the City Council in 2002. The Southwest Sector Plan provides a future land use plan that reflects the demands of the market and provides community amenities while generating a school-aged population that is actually lower than what was anticipated by the Sector G plan established in 1994. (One thousand and seventy-seven children were anticipated in the 1994 plan, versus 1,066 children anticipated in the Southwest Sector Plan adopted in 2002.)
In a letter to Mayor George Pradel and the City Council dated Jan. 14, 2002, the Indian Prairie School District 204 Board of Education unanimously supported the process and the student generation number associated with the Southwest Sector Plan. As stated by the Board of Education, "The School District is most appreciative of the city's effort to hold the line on student generation to the 1,077 level generated in the 1994 plan."
Through countless examples, the Indian Prairie School District and the city of Naperville have been successful in partnering on issues that concern the development of the community. To conclude that the decisions of the Naperville City Council in the development of the Southwest Sector did not consider the implications upon School District 204 or caused an increase of students is simply in error.
Peter T. Burchard city manager
New school not wise use of tax dollars
Naperville and Aurora shouldn't approve the School District 204's referendum. The financial information provided by the school board is incomplete.
In addition, the board's new high school map shows that they have tortured the boundaries and place too much emphasis on keeping Neuqua Valley free of low-income students.
At last week's public board meeting, one Neuqua mother said of Waubonsie Valley students that she wouldn't mind if her son dated one of "them." This isn't turning out to be a wise use of our tax dollars.
Robert Verrando Naperville
02/19/06
So, while stop204 may have stopped advertising their favorite website, which provides conflicting, incomplete, inaccurate information, they are now going to reprint each anti-referendum article that's in the paper? There have been 100's of letters to the editors regarding the referendum - is Robert Verrando's any more significant?
