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Board reviews stipend, club and uniform proposals as staff outlines steps to close participation gaps
Summary
The Oak Park and River Forest committee of the whole reviewed 2026–27 stipend recommendations, plans to replace marching band uniforms, an all‑school athletic uniform bid with Under Armour and new club funding after staff highlighted racial gaps in extracurricular participation and plans for targeted outreach.
Oak Park and River Forest School District officials on Tuesday reviewed recommendations for instructional and extracurricular spending and described steps to address a notable gap in student participation.
District staff presented proposed instructional resources for 2026–27 and said the $122,000 cost for the listed adoptions is included in the fiscal‑year 2027 proposed budget. The meeting then moved to extracurriculars: staff said marching band uniforms — last replaced in 2012 — need to be replaced to outfit a growing program of roughly 140 students and recommended using a cooperative purchasing quote with an expected useful life of roughly 10 years.
Staff also descri…
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