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Vol. 102, No. 47
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REVIEW NOVEMBER 20, 2019
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Students say no to plastic PAGE 9
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Cavallo speaks on test scores, enrollment
Says sub-groups responsible for ‘underperforming’ designation By MARIA MAXHAM Staff Reporter
During a Nov. 14 District 91 Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Louis Cavallo addressed the recently released Illinois School Report Cards from the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE). “Last year,” said Cavallo, “we had five schools designated as commendable. This year, we have two designated as commendable, two designated as underperforming and one with no designation.” The latter, he said, was due to a too-small third-grade population at Garfield, so those students’ scores were included in Grant-White’s scores. Cavallo explained that the “underperforming” designation is given to a school in which any single subgroup is underperforming. At Field Stevenson, for instance, this group is CWD, or children with disabilities. At the middle school, two groups are underperforming: CWD and Hispanic children. “We have a higher population of IEP kids relative to other schools,” said Cavallo. “That’s not a bad thing, but it can be reflected in the scores.” “CWD is a phenomenon that is very difficult to understand,” added Cavallo. “In our district right now, we have 667 students in grades K through eight, 250 of those with an IEP. Fifty are speech only. Two hundred have a learning disability or See CAVALLO on page 18
Photo by SHANEL ROMAIN
CLUE: Proviso East students perform in the school’s production of “Clue: On Stage” on Nov. 15 and 16. See more on page 16.
The messy business of recycling Forum addresses issues and solutions By MARIA MAXHAM Staff Reporter
Recycling, the last of the three Rs after “reduce” and “reuse,” is not as simple
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as it might seem. It’s not just about tossing plastics, glass and takeout containers into the appropriate bin in the belief that it will be sorted and magically turned into a purse or a pair of flipflops, thus saving the planet, one easily recycled product at a time. Rather, recycling is a global industry fraught with economic and legal problems over the past few years. It has be-
come less and less cost effective for waste management companies to continue their recycling programs, and municipalities across the United States have abandoned recycling programs completely, citing difficulty and expense. Forest Park reports rising costs for recycling year after year, but town administra-
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