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Kaneland board approves Fox Valley tentative budget, a Cengage child‑development textbook and McDowell improvement plan
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Summary
The board unanimously approved the Fox Valley Career Center tentative budget, bought a Cengage child‑development textbook for high‑school curriculum, and approved McDowell Elementary’s ISBE improvement plan to access improvement grant funds.
At its June meeting, the Kaneland CUSD 302 board approved a slate of items that included the Fox Valley Career Center tentative budget, a classroom textbook purchase and the McDowell Elementary school improvement plan required by the Illinois State Board of Education.
Fox Valley Career Center
Dr. Bogan told the board that because Kaneland serves as the administrative agent for the Fox Valley Career Center (FVCC), the board must adopt both the FVCC tentative and final budgets. FVCC’s tentative budget projects total revenue just over $2.4 million, supported largely by tuition reimbursement; it expects more than $330,000 from a career and technical education improvement grant and about $34,000 from Perkins funds. Expenditures were forecast to match revenue closely with a small projected surplus of roughly $2,082. The board unanimously approved the FVCC tentative budget (6–0).
Textbook adoption
Curriculum staff presented a request to purchase Cengage’s Child and Adolescent Development in Your Classroom, 4th edition, including a teacher toolkit and a classroom set. The presented purchase price was $4,100.25 and will come from the curriculum adoption budget. The board voted 6–0 to approve the purchase.
McDowell School Improvement Plan
Administrators summarized the McDowell school improvement plan being submitted to the Illinois State Board of Education as part of a multi‑year accountability process. The plan sets measurable targets (for example, a 5% increase in I‑Ready performance for grades 1–5 and a 6% increase for students with disabilities on the IAR) and is tied to improvement grant funding the district quantified in the meeting discussion. The board voted unanimously to approve the McDowell plan so the district can access the earmarked improvement funds.
What happens next
Staff said FVCC’s final budget will be adopted later, the textbook will be placed in classrooms after procurement, and McDowell’s plan will be submitted to ISBE so the district can receive the improvement grant funds and implement the planned 90‑day action cycles.
