Ohio High School

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OHIO — The Ohio High School Board took action on the following items at its meeting May 18:

• Heard concerns during the public comment time from Bridgot Lampkin on the quality of the district’s teachers, gross errors in IEPs and the quality of education in the past three weeks. She felt the students are not being offered the opportunities they should have. Lampkin didn’t like the fact that junior high students interact with high school students. She said she is trying to raise her children in a Christian-supported atmosphere and feels she is not getting that at Ohio.

• Heard the committee gathering data for the high school would like to send out a graduate study going back five years. There will be an expense involved in the distribution and return of the surveys. The committee also discussed doing a community survey but feels an information meeting with voting at the end would be more beneficial.

• Appointed Marilyn Johnson as district treasurer; Amcore Bank of Princeton, Citizens First National Bank of Princeton, Citizens First State Bank of Walnut, First State Bank of Van Orin, Centrue Bank, Central Bank of Princeton and Illinois School District Liquid Asset Funds as depositories for district funds; Baumann and Associates of Peoria as auditors for the district; Landes, Benson and Parkins of Chillicothe as architect for the district; and Ward, Murray, Pace and Johnson, P.C. of Dixon and Klein, Thorpe and Jenkins, Ltd. of Chicago as legal representatives for the district.

• Heard an update on the water leaks around the windows.

• Heard the district received the state results of the State Special Education IDEA evaluation, and both districts received the highest rating of 4.0 out of 4.0.

• Heard Justin Mapes, director of the Ohio Public Library has proposed the district enter into a joint agreement between the district’s library and the town library.

• Heard the staff wanted to keep the employee health insurance with the same Blue Cross Blue Shield policy. The rates have gone up 25 percent.

• Heard the students’ schedules were sent out in the mail two weeks earlier.

• Heard some high school students went to Outdoor Education in Mount Carroll, Camp Benson.