The East St. Louis School District 189 Board of Education on Jan. 24 approved a revised 2024–25 school calendar, a student placement to an alternative program for a single student, and a package of resolutions and routine reports during a roll-call vote.

The board opened a required public hearing earlier in the meeting to receive input on using Casimir Pulaski Day and two other dates as makeup days after the district recorded three snow days and exhausted state-allowed e-learning days. No members of the public spoke during the hearing. The board then voted to approve the revised calendar and a set of bundled action items.

The calendar revision was presented as a response to three weather-related closures and the district’s need to schedule makeup days before statewide testing in mid-March. Under the approved calendar: Casimir Pulaski Day will be used as a student day; Feb. 18 and Feb. 19, 2025, will be regular student attendance days (one of those had been a board holiday and one an in-service day); and an in-service day will be tacked on to May 23, 2025.

The board approved a bundle of agenda items identified in the meeting as 13a, 13b, 13c, 13d, 13f, 14a, 15a, 16b and 16c. That bundle included:
- A resolution authorizing notice to remedy regarding Joseph Roach (Resolution No. 012325-A).
- A resolution in support of Illinois Vision 2030 (Resolution No. 012325-B), described in the meeting as a statewide roadmap for pre-K–12 education focused on future-focused learning, shared accountability and funding stability.
- Placement of one student (student ID recorded in the minutes as 88914329) to an alternative school/safe-schools program for group-violence or mob-type action; the motion as discussed placed the student in the district’s safe schools program.
- The revised proposed 2024–25 calendar described above.
- The district financial report for December 2024.
- The personnel report/addendum and contracts.
- Curriculum committee and finance committee reports and addenda.

Motions: The calendar and bundled items were approved on a roll-call motion, moved by Rudy Ray and seconded by Walter Hood (identified in the transcript as Mister Hood). Recorded votes in the roll call that were called aloud in the transcript included Rudy Ray—yes; Walter Hood—yes; Remedy (Remedy) Dean—yes; Dan Moore—yes; and Mister Lockett—yes. The board secretary concluded the roll call by announcing the motion passed.

Earlier in the meeting the board also approved the minutes of the Dec. 19, 2024 meeting by roll call.

No member of the public spoke at the public hearing on making Casimir Pulaski Day and the two February dates school days, and the superintendent noted the district had used all five state-allowed e-learning days and wanted makeup days set before mid-March testing.

The superintendent concluded the report portion of the meeting after the approvals. The board set the next regular meeting for Feb. 19, 2025.