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"A Golden Apple for the Teacher"
It’s been said that if you have a good teacher you should give them an apple. So what do you give an excellent teacher? That question was answered at Crete Elementary on Tuesday, May 9, 2012, as long-time teacher, Denise Ostarello, was presented the prestigious Golden Apple Award. The ten honorees, all Pre-Kindergarten-3rd grade teachers, were selected from a pool of 560 nominees from throughout the Chicago area.
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The Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) will use the new categories starting with data to be reported for the 2010-11 school year. This requires school districts to re-identify race and ethnicity for all students—and the identification is to be done by parents or guardians. If a student’s parents or guardians decline to indicate race and/or ethnicity, observer identification by school district staff is required.
The new race and ethnicity data will be used in the same manner as previously collected data, e.g., in reporting and analyzing test results by race and ethnicity. The information will not be used to check immigration status, and the confidentiality of individual student information will be protected.
In children emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include:
Antiviral drugs are prescription medicines (pills, liquid or an inhaler) that fight against the flu by keeping flu viruses from reproducing in your body. If you get sick, antiviral drugs can make your illness milder and make you feel better faster. They may also prevent serious flu complications. For treatment, antiviral drugs work best if started soon after getting sick (within 2 days of symptoms).
We are closely monitoring the spread of the disease across this country and watching what is happening in the Southern Hemisphere where the flu season has already begun. Our concern is what will happen this fall when we head into flu season in this country and we are monitoring the novel H1N1 virus to see how it evolves and whether it is expected to produce more severe disease. So far the disease has been moderate but Americans have died and many have fallen ill. As we prepare for the fall flu season, we will be working closely with our partners in the medical community to develop, test, produce, distribute, and administer an H1N1 flu vaccine and to distribute and dispense antiviral medications for those who may require treatment for the H1N1 virus. We have been working with partners in the pharmaceutical industry continually since the virus first emerged to develop a vaccine and are making good progress. We have placed initial orders with vaccine manufacturers and clinical trials of the new vaccines will begin later this summer. Working with Congress, governors, mayors, state and local health departments, the medical community and our private sector partners, the administration has been actively preparing for all possible H1N1 virus outbreak scenarios that may develop over the next few months and will prepare action plans based on the best scientific information available to help our nation respond aggressively to H1N1.
Sick people should stay at home, except to go to the doctor’s office, and should avoid contact with others. Keeping people with a fever at home may reduce the number of people who get infected. Because high temperatures are linked with higher amounts of virus, people with a fever may be more contagious.
-The school of origin: the school that the child or youth attended when permanently housed or the school in which the child or youth was last enrolled-The local attendance area school: any public school that non-homeless students who live in the attendance area in which the child or youth is actually living are eligible to attend
-Birth Certificate-Immunization or other health/medical records-previous academic records-proof of residence-proof of guardianship
For additional information on homeless education, visit the National Center for Homeless Education website at http://serve.org/nche.
Market data—Similar, neighboring properties that have sold recently are compared to the property being assessed.
Cost—The cost to reproduce (or rebuild) the property is calculated, the amount for depreciation (e.g., wear and tear, age) is subtracted, and land value is then added.
Income—The present worth of the income from an income-producing property is calculated by measuring the amount, quality, and durability of the future net income the property can be expected to return to an investor.
If you look at your tax bill, the taxing districts are listed along with the amount each one receives from your tax contribution. View an example table
The relationship of these 3 variables determines what your taxes will be. Several examples below illustrate how the math works, however, in summary, if your home’s value increases more than the average of all the other properties in your community, your taxes will go up If your home’s value decreases more than the average of all other properties in your community, your taxes will go up. This is because taxing districts receive a set amount of money each year, independent of tax rates, and when the average EAV of a community decreases, the rate will go up to ensure enough money is collected for the taxing district. If you home’s EAV went up more than or decreased less than the community’s overall average EAV, this is when you will see you taxes actually increase.
Assessed value of your property goes up & everything else stays the sameSuppose the taxing districts decide they need to raise $1 million in property taxes and the assessed value of all the property in your community is $100 million. The property tax rate is calculated by dividing the amount of tax to be raised by the total assessed value:
$1 million/$100 million = 1% Tax Rate
In this scenario, if your property’s assessed value is $100,000, your tax bill would be calculated by multiplying your assessed value by your tax rate:
$100,000 x 1% = $1,000 Taxes to be paid
If the amount requested by the taxing districts stays the same and the overall assessed value of your community stays the same but your assessed value increased from $100,000 to $125,000, your taxes would increase:
$125,000 x 1% = $1250
Total Equalized Assessed Value can also drive a tax rate up or downProperty growth in a community is extremely important to whether a tax rate will go up or down. If the total assessed value of your community doubles from $100 to $200 million and the amount of taxes to be raised stays the same, your tax rate would go down:
$1 million/$200 million = 0.5 % Tax rate
If the total assessed value of your community decreases from $100 to $80 million and the amount of taxes to be raised stays the same, your tax rate would go up:
$1 million/$80 million = 1.25 % Tax rate
If your property’s assessed value stays the same and the amount of taxes that needs to be raised by the taxing district’s stays the same, under the growth scenario presented in first example your taxes would go down:
$100,000 X 0.5% = $500
When a community begins to lose property growth or value, even if your property’s assessed value stays the same and the amount of taxes that needs to be raised stays the same, your taxes will go up.
$100,000 X 1.25% = $1250
My assessed value went down but my taxes went upIf your assessed value decreased from $100,000 to $90,000, and if the tax rate goes up due to the taxing bodies asking for more dollars or your taxing district’s Equalized Assessed Value goes down, your taxes would go up because the rate has increased.
$90,000 x 1.25% = $1125