Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Get email alerts on the District Policy topic
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.
Evergreen Park ESD 124 board approves consolidated federal grant plan, updates parent-student handbook grading and discipline rules
Summary
The Evergreen Park ESD 124 Board on May 21 approved a consolidated district plan aligning federal grants and adopted revisions to the 2025-26 parent-student handbook, including a districtwide grading scale alignment, assessment changes and discipline clarifications.
Evergreen Park ESD 124 approved a consolidated district plan and a revised parent-student handbook during its May 21 regular meeting.
The consolidated plan combines the district—s federal grant programs — including Title I, II, III, IV and IDEA grants — into a single annual plan intended to streamline grant applications, district staff said. The board approved the plan by roll call vote.
District staff said the handbook updates include a new, districtwide grading scale aligned with the high school; a shift to weight summative assessments more heavily; allowance for retakes of summative assessments; replacement of the STAR K— reading assessment with MClass for grades K—; and addition of the SSIS social-emotional screener to benchmark assessments.
"This is an annual thing that we do. It allows us to kind of align all of our federal grant funding together in one plan," said Doctor Woodland, a district administrator, during the discussion of the consolidated plan. The board voted to approve the plan later in the meeting.
The handbook will also include Central Middle School—s progressive-discipline procedures as Appendix A, district staff said, and will add that failing to serve an assigned consequence (for example, a detention) will result in an escalated consequence. The handbook adds "no contact contract" violations as level 2 offenses at Central Middle School.
Board members said the handbook revisions follow work by a district grading committee that has been meeting since November and a recent handbook meeting that included parents and teachers.
The consolidated district plan and the 2025-26 parent-student handbook were approved in separate roll-call votes. Board members also approved related consent-agenda personnel recommendations tied to the coming school year.
The district administration said the consolidated plan is intended to reduce duplicate grant paperwork and better align district goals with federal funding priorities; the handbook changes are intended to standardize grading and clarify discipline procedures across buildings.
Board materials show the consolidated plan was provided to trustees in the meeting packet and the handbook revisions were discussed at a May 1 handbook meeting that included parents and teachers.
The board did not set a separate public hearing on the consolidated plan; the action was taken during the regular meeting.
