the village free press Vol. III No. 32
Loyola, AmeriCorps offering paid CNA training for Maywood residents, PAGE 6
D209 buys $250K math curriculum Board also brings back credit recovery program for $243K, votes for nearly $800K in energy savings By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
During a July 16 regular meeting, the Proviso Township High Schools District 209 Board of Education unanimously approved the purchase of around $250,000 in new math textbooks and digital courseware for students at Proviso East and Proviso West. Nicole Howard, assistant superintendent for Academics and Student and Family Services, said that enVision Integrated Math series by London-based educational publishing company Pearson includes a hardcover text book “that will last over time” and a digital license that will last for six years. “It’s very dynamic, very personalized and it fits in very well with the instructional platforms at each school — competencybased at East and mastery-based at West,” Howard said during the meeting. See D209 MATH TEXTBOOKS on page 4
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DOUBLE HOMICIDE: Dean Stansberry, 38, holds up a #JusticeForIsiah t-shirt during a July 23 press conference in Maywood. His stepson, Isiah Scott, was killed in Maywood in March. On July 30, Stansberry and Yarnell M. White, 30, were murdered in a shooting that happened outside of Stansberry’s Maywood home. FILE
Tragedy strikes Maywood family twice Dean Stansberry, who wanted justice for murdered stepson, Isiah Scott, killed on July 30 in double homicide
By MICHAEL ROMAIN Editor
On July 23, Dean Stansberry, 38, stood outside of the Family Dollar on the 1000 block of South Madison St. in Maywood to protest the unsolved murder of his stepson, Isiah Scott — the 19-year-old who was
fatally shot just feet away from the store in March. A week later, on July 30, Stansberry himself was murdered outside of his home, on the 1200 block of South 13th Ave. in Maywood. Yarnell M. White, 30, of Maywood, was also killed, according to the
Cook County medical examiner’s office. So far, law enforcement authorities have not indicated whether or not the murders of the two men are connected to Scott’s murder in March. In a written statement, Maywood police See DEAN STANSBERRY on page 3
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