Board approves curriculum changes, contracts, construction work, tech lease and several expulsions in single meeting

The Joliet Township High School District 204 Board of Education approved a slate of action items Wednesday, including curriculum recommendations, contracts, capital work and personnel motions, and voted on three student-expulsion cases with placement recommendations.

Votes at a glance

- Action items A & B (curriculum recommendations from the Curriculum Coordinating Council): board approved after motion and second; roll-call voting recorded all present trustees voting yes. (Outcome: approved.)

- Action item C (2025–26 teacher-evaluation agreement): approved by roll call. (Outcome: approved.)

- Action item D (Second reading: recommendation to adopt revised policy 7:190 exhibit E — student behavior): approved by roll call. (Outcome: approved.)

- Action item E (Fusion Academy contract 2025–26): approved; board discussed multi-year vs. annual contract terms and confirmed a clause permitting earlier termination if needed. (Outcome: approved.)

- Action item F (Joliet West construction projects — terrazzo flooring bids, phase 2): approved; the district reported the overall budget was under the board-authorized amount after bids. (Outcome: approved.)

- Action item G (technology lease/purchase to continue one-to-one device initiative, laptops for incoming eighth graders): approved as a lease purchase. (Outcome: approved.)

- Action item H (request for disposal): approved. (Outcome: approved.)

- Action item I (CTE teacher salary memorandum of agreement): approved; trustees thanked union and staff negotiators for work to create an alternative CTE salary schedule intended to attract and retain CTE instructors. (Outcome: approved.)

- Action item J (personnel reports 1–11): approved as presented. (Outcome: approved.)

Student-discipline actions

The board voted on three student-discipline cases after executive-session deliberations and moved back into public session to act on the hearing officer recommendations. In each case the board recorded roll-call votes and specified placements:

- Case W242512: motion to expel until January 2027 with placement at Lincoln School; motion passed (majority yes; one abstention recorded elsewhere during the meeting on other items). (Outcome: expulsion; placement: Lincoln School.)

- Case C242513: motion to expel until January 2026 with placement at Lincoln School; motion passed. (Outcome: expulsion; placement: Lincoln School.)

- Case C242514: motion to expel until January 2026 with placement at Lincoln School; motion passed. (Outcome: expulsion; placement: Lincoln School.)

Procedural notes and roll calls: the meeting transcript records roll-call votes for each action item. For items A–J, the clerk called trustee names in order and recorded “Yes” votes and occasional abstentions. Where roll-call names were recorded in the transcript, the board clerk read the following names during votes: Mr. Coffey, Mrs. Stiff, Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Guerrero Mayer (listed as Mrs. Guerrero), Dr. Huntington and others as shown on the transcript; votes were recorded individually for each motion. The official minutes and board resolution documents will contain the formal vote tallies and the signed motions; this article summarizes outcomes as recorded on the public meeting transcript.

Ending: Trustees thanked staff and union negotiators for work on the CTE salary memorandum and approved the slate of action items and discipline recommendations; the board moved on to reports and then adjourned.