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Pirates win first football game in three seasons PAGE 3
AUGUST 29, 2018
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D91 unveils strategic plan for 2018-19 Educators seek to increase test scores, implement new math curriculum By NONA TEPPER
Africa or the U.S., there’s a good chance the Forest Park resident was involved. He addressed Nelson Mandela by his
t their meeting on Aug. 9, the Forest Park School District 91 Board of Education unanimously approved the district’s strategic plan for the 2018-19 school year, which outlines teaching strategies, test scores and social-emotional goals the district aims to achieve by May 2019 and beyond. “A lot of it this year is continuing what we started last year, so we can really see it through,” Superintendent Louis Cavallo said at the board meeting. “The goals that we set this time are a bit of a stretch. We didn’t want to just [increase] 1 percentage point; we wanted to make it significant. We didn’t make it too easy, but we did indeed make it goals that we believe we can accomplish.” In the plan, D91 teachers, administrators and staff outlined short-term and long-term academic goals around state and school tests in math and English language arts (ELA). For the state Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exam, D91 aims to increase student scores in the ELA and math sections by 10 percent by 2020, so the district meets and, in some cases, exceeds the state average. In 2017, 33 percent of D91 students met or exceeded state standards in ELA in PARCC, compared to
See PREXY on page 9
See D91 STRATEGIC PLAN on page 10
ALEXA ROGALS/Staff Photographer
A garage becomes a gallery
Participants and attendees check out artwork at 519 Beloit Avenue by artists Joseph Mollo and Jonathan Sciannaon on Saturday, Aug. 25, during the annual Garage Galleries event in Forest Park. See more photos on page 8.
Prof. Prexy Nesbitt: Making the history he teaches Forest Parker knew Dr. King, Mandela, and worked with Barack Obama By TOM HOLMES Contributing Reporter
Prexy Nesbitt never did finish his PhD work on African History, in large part be-
cause he was too busy making the history he was teaching at Columbia College in downtown Chicago. If there was a struggle against colonialism or racism in the last 60 years in
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