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Residents ink names on new Huntley hospital
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Board could reverse approval of housing By JOSEPH BUSTOS jbustos@shawmedia.com
Photos by Kyle Grillot – kgrillot@shawmedia.com
Powers Construction employees raise the beam during the community beam raising Saturday at Centegra Hospital – Huntley. The event in conjunction with the Centegra’s annual Family Health Fest and drew hundreds of community members, local leaders, donors, politicians and hospital administrators.
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By JEFF ENGELHARDT jengelhardt@shawmedia.com HUNTLEY – When Susan Milford said she wanted the community to be a part of the new $233 million hospital at the Centegra Health System campus in Huntley, she meant it in a more literal way than one would expect. Hundreds of community members had the opportunity to become a permanent part of the future hospital Saturday by signing their names on a beam before it was raised as part of the ongoing construction of the 300,000-squarefoot facility. Centegra’s beam raising event drew hundreds of residents
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Construction updates Taryn Rainey, 7, signs her name on a beam before it was raised Saturday during the beam raising for Centegra Hospital – Huntley. The new $233 million hospital is slated to be completed by the end of the summer of 2016.
Those interested can follow construction progress live at www. centegra.org/service/ construction-updates/.
CARY – The Cary Village Board this week could have a change of heart on the proposed 60-unit apartment complex at First and Pearl Streets. On Tuesday, the Village Board is scheduled to consider whether to rescind an ordinance that allows Pedcor Investments to build the $18 million affordable housing apartment complex. There has been vocal opposition to the project, which was approved by the Village Board on June 17 in a 4-2 vote. Village President Mark Kownick and Trustees Rick Dudek, David Chapman and Bob Bragg voted for the project. Trustees Karen Lukasik and Jeff Kraus voted against it. Trustee Bruce Kaplan recused himself from the discussion and vote because he is the listing agent for the property. A website, carymatters. com, and corresponding Facebook page, has led a campaign and online petition calling for the board to reverse its decision. The group has set up billboards that say “No Cary Low Income Apartment Housing. We came, we spoke, the Mayor didn’t care.” Billboards are being placed at almost every major entry and exit point in town, as well as in Lake in the Hills and Fox River Grove, said website administrator Jim Cosler.
Mark Kownick Cary village president
If you go n WHAT: Cary
Village Board meeting n WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday n WHERE: Village Hall, 655 Village Hall Drive
On the Web The state of Illinois requires that municipalities with at least 1,000 people have at least 10 percent of housing units be deemed “affordable.” See how McHenry County municipalities fare at NWHerald. com.
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Districts nationwide debate merits of master’s for teachers By JAMIE STENGLE The Associated Press DALLAS – Efforts to eliminate extra pay for teachers who earn advanced degrees are gaining momentum in a small but growing number of U.S. schools, stirring a national debate about how best to compensate quality educators and angering teachers who say
the extra training is valuable. More than half of the nation’s teachers have master’s degrees or higher, but the changing salary structure is giving pause to others considering the same path. Texas’ two largest school districts, in Houston and Dallas, recently eliminated advanced degree pay going forward, following the example of North Caroli-
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na, where lawmakers last year started phasing it out. A few other states have made tweaks to reduce how much advanced degrees factor into pay. “They’re trying to say there’s no value at all for a teacher going back to increase their knowledge,” said Rena Honea, president of Alliance-AFT, which represents Dallas Independent School
District employees. “Just by having the additional knowledge in their content area gives them more tools in their toolbox to be able to reach the different types of learners that are in the classroom.” Those championing dropping the extra pay say advanced degrees don’t necessarily translate into better student test scores. They say
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the money is better spent elsewhere, such as on rewarding teachers deemed most effective in the classroom. “Effectiveness is more based on results rather than any checklist of things,” said Dallas Superintendent Mike Miles, who implemented a pay-for-performance system in the district, as he did at his previous district in Colorado.
“So years of service and the advanced degrees are checklist-type things.” Yet the backlash in North Carolina grew so intense that the state is now looking at reinstating the extra pay for those teaching classes related to the subject in which they have an advanced degree. It’s
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