Schools
Late State Payments, School Fees on VVSD Agenda
The board is slated to vote on a proposal that would freeze student registration fees at their current level, but would charge parents a 20 percent late fee.
The state continues to lag behind on making school funding payments to the Valley View School District.
According to a treasurer’s report scheduled to be presented to the board Monday night, as of Feb. 28, the State of Illinois owed more than $8.3 million to local schools.
That includes funding for bilingual education, state-mandated early childhood programs, special education funding, state free breakfast and lunch reimbursements and transportation funding.
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The board is also scheduled to vote on a proposal that would impose a 20 percent late charge on parents who fail to register their students by an Aug. 16 deadline.
The proposal, presented Assistant Superintendent of Administrative Services Gary Grizaffi, was to give the district’s finance committee time to review its impact on school finances.
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Under the plan, student registration and activity fees would remain at the 2010-11 level.
Under the current structure, fees for elementary students total $40, while middle school families pay $100 and high school families, $150 per student. Households that do not register by the deadline would see an additional 20 percent added to their total.
According to Grizaffi, the late fee is intended to encourage more families to attend registration events and to reduce instructional delays caused by students registering on the first day of school.
Grants will pay for new textbooks
Also on the agenda is a proposal to use career and technical education grant funds to purchase $23,310 worth of new textbooks.
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum Faith Dahlquist is slated to bring a request before the board to purchase career and technical education textbooks on subjects ranging from architectural drafting to Web design.
According to the proposal, the texts were selected to allow Valley View to maintain its dual credit status with . Last year, 256 Bolingbrook High School students and 209 Romeoville High School students earned dual credit from JJC by taking career and technical education classes.
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