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* State Sen. William Delgado’s son is dead at 27

Ruben Delgado, who died Saturday, taught advanced placement Spanish at Morton East High School for the past three years and had been accepted into a master’s program in Spanish language at the Royal Academy of Languages in Salamanca, Spain, a spokeswoman for the senator said.

* Some Illinois districts give up middle school ideals

The move goes against a decades-long trend toward middle schools in which school districts have invested in the middle grades by adding enrichment courses, reducing class sizes and boosting planning time for teachers.

But budget issues are causing several Illinois districts to reconsider the middle years.

* AMA says 20% of claims incorrectly processed

About $777.6 million in administrative costs could be saved by improving claims payment accuracy by 1 percentage point, the AMA estimates. Getting to 100% claims payment accuracy would save up to $15.5 billion, according to the AMA. Among other findings, the AMA reported that claim response time ranged from five to 13 days; and health plans improved in terms of disclosing policies and information to physicians through the Internet.

* Motorola hires ex-Wall Street analyst to top post

* Local agencies say published reports find minimal risks associated with wind turbines

* Southern Illinoisan: Illinois coal can produce energy, many jobs

* Thousands of Families Start Applying for CHA Wait List

A lottery will randomly select 40,000 names at the end of the four-week registration.

* Students take academic hit when a slaying is close to their home

* CPS Pilot Program Could Hold Answers to Overhauling Teacher Evaluations

Lauren Sartain is one of the authors of the report. She says the pilot program helps principals do a better job of rating teachers because it clearly defines an unsatisfactory rating as “doing harm to students.”

* Fewer Chicago teachers making the grade

Eight percent of teachers got at least one unsatisfactory rating — defined as doing academic harm to students — under the new system, piloted in 44 Chicago elementary schools. By comparison, just 0.4 percent of teachers in the same schools were deemed subpar when they were evaluated using the traditional checklist one year earlier, according to the report released Tuesday by the Consortium on Chicago School Research at the University of Chicago.

* Teachers to picket School Board vote

* City worker suspended over garage teardown

* New red light plan may be trimmed

During today’s county board meeting, commissioners are expected to OK a measure allowing municipalities to opt out of the red light program.

* Ex-officer says Burge scuffled with suspect

* Brown: Latest chapter in Burge cops closing ranks

* DuPage airport board chairman expects the ax

Goodwin’s “right thing” is a plan to open up the 450 acres of developable land at the DuPage National Technology Park to more than just technology-based firms.

To Schillerstrom, it’s the wrong thing. The county board chairman wants to remove the airport board from having any oversight of the tech park land and allow a tech park board to handle future land deals.

* Businesses say no to bike races in Geneva

* Fox Valley schools high on Newsweek list

* State to begin cleanup of massive illegal dump in Markham

* APD promotions include first female commander

* Leibovitz retiring early from [Rock Island] county clerk post

* Sweeny: Winnebago County’s reserves help boost bond rating

The county’s credit rating went from the A range to Aa2, the second highest rating available. That means its “obligations are judged to be of high quality and are subject to very low credit risk,” Moody’s says.

This new rating was not easily earned, and the county still has an operating deficit of $2 million, which it is trying to whittle down by early retirement options and other measures. But the rating does mean that Moody’s considers the county’s $10 million reserve fund to be enough to ensure financial obligations to bond holders are met, says Scott Christiansen, County Board chairman.

* Fifteen buildings to be demolished or cleaned up in Quincy as part of $1.9 million grant

* [Springfield] School board OKs one-year teacher contract

* Pontiac High School approves gradual teacher raises

* Delayed DeWitt tax bills expected to arrive in two weeks

* The Economics of the World Cup

posted by Rich Miller
Tuesday, Jun 15, 10 @ 9:41 am

Comments

I know it i tough on them, but it was nice to see the spld teachers agree to no pay increase and putting more into the cost of their benefits.

Comment by Ghost Tuesday, Jun 15, 10 @ 11:28 am
condolences to State Senator Delgado and his family.

Comment by Amalia Tuesday, Jun 15, 10 @ 12:37 pm