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NW Chicago Tribune, Wednesday, July 22, 1998 Section 2 3 rawest Fire drill Throw out your books! School's out and it's time to hang. chicago.tribune.comgafiredrill Monday: Business Tuesday: Services Thursday: Family Friday: Religion bp r-p'k V' Old-school charm no SCHAUMBURG Schools search for new assistant superintendent is' u. SL 12 1. wit js" match for technology Few mourn building new one coming By Dimitra DeFotis Tribune Staff Writer I "Chip" Combs IV hated the septic field stink behind the jNorth Barrington Elementary School, but he was so charmed by the old building that he bpught his parents' house and enrolled his sons in the school. A lot had changed since i Combs and his three siblings attended in the 1960s: fewer chil- dren walked to school, and none could boast the honor of being a guard, with the traffic xm Illinois Highway 59 too busy.

wi.istK vamnlnajl tVia coma o't tho Ira 1QA7 ctriiftliro was bulldozed rather unceremoniously this month. Combs' sons Marty, a year-oia in graaer, ana Mai- thpw an 11-vpar-nlri fith trrarlpr who was in the last North Bar- were the same bad smells and the same gym that doubled as a 1 -cafeteria. Rii iha hnvc' wnrHc hint at a Tittle jealousy when they mention their twin 5-year-old sisters, Meaghan and Mallory, who will I attend the brand-new North Bar-rington School set to open in August. "The old school was nice, but it was old. I'm glad the building torn down," Marty Combs said.

"The kids at the new school will have new technology. I think the kids at the old school might have been missing out." irmune pnoio ueorge inompson A bulldozer tears into North Barrington Elementary School. The replacement for the roughly 50-year-old building is set to open in August. original four-room school. Teachers joined a union.

And the curriculum for her 1st- and 2nd-grade students shifted from one built on reading, writing and arithmetic to one including social studies and other broad topics. "We had no teachers lounge or anything like that," she said, adding that students ate a brown-bag lunch at their desks. "We had three teachers. We were with the kids at lunch and recess." At the new school, money from the bond issue will only pay for the building, furniture and other basic necessities, excluding landscaping and the playground, i But the building will feature ceramic tiles that students personalized and parents purchased in a fundraiser that netted roughly $40,000 for playground equipment. The new building will have air conditioning and be wired for greater use of technology.

Its architecture will bring together three mini-buildings into a central core for administrators and student activities. But the new building will lack the character of the old structure, where children and visitors followed a rainbow of stripes painted on the walls to find classrooms in the maze of hallways. "We all went to get bricks," said Carol Rolfs, president of the North Barrington School Parent Teacher Organization. "It came down so quickly." "We worked so hard to get the new building," she said. "I didn't have any emotional ties to the old building.

It is all exciting. I just hope it gets done in time." By Margaret Van Duch Special to the Tribune Elementary School District 54 will begin its search to replace Assistant Supt. Kathleen Williams, who is leaving to become a superintendent in Kansas. Her resignation was one of several staff changes approved at a recent District 54 school board meeting. Williams, 48, was responsible for transportation, policy drafting and responding to parental concerns.

Williams has worked for the district for three years. Williams recently accepted the position of superintendent of Lawrence Public School District 497 in Kansas City, Kan. "District 54 is going with me to Kansas," Williams told the school board last week. "You'll always be in my heart. And if you ever need me, all I have to do is click my heels three times and I'll be back in District 54." In other board action, the Early Childhood Center at Hillcrest Elementary School in Hoffman Estates was dissolved after the children there were dispersed to schools throughout the district Former Principal Connie Nes-tler will become principal of Churchill Elementary School in Schaumburg.

Churchill Principal Rosalie Haubner was appointed an instructional coordinator, who works with teachers to improve instruction. MacArthur Principal Barb Schremser moved over to become principal of Link Elementary School in Elk Grove. Former Link Principal Bruce Brown took a job as a middle school principal in Lincolnwood. Vicki Brown, an assistant principal at both MacArthur and Churchill Schools, was appointed principal of MacArthur in Hoffman Estates. The Road! Thursday July 23 9 P.M.

Teacher-training Center takes new course 4 with the $19.4 million bond issue approved in an April 1997 referendum. The second, Rose School in South Barrington with the same price tag and design is to open sometime in 1999. It was after two failed attempts in 1996 that a grass-roots team of parents managed to convince voters that two new schools were needed. "I felt very sad when they knocked it down," said Marion Schwemm Andersen, 85, who taught at the old North Barrington school for 30 years until 1975. "I said they shouldn't do it and a lot of members of the community felt sad too.

But I guess that is progress. They needed more room and space." During Andersen's tenure, several additions were added to the Tribune photo by Terry Harris Tony Houle, a biology teacher at School, helps LaJoya Washington, a Web site to help teach science. school districts had been created as an emergency measure after the Northwest Education Cooperative disbanded in the late 1980s. The Center, which includes the Illinois Resource Center and other departments, had been a small part of the cooperative. In need of a replacement educational institu tion to accept some state grants on its behalf, the Center turned to the school districts.

The districts did not put any funds into the center, and received no discounts on development classes because of their relationship. Internet cribbing decisions to administrators. "The difficult part here is determining what specific penalty will apply without knowing the specific instance," Chapman said. The board also approved a new student appearance policy prohibiting clothing that depicts the use of tobacco, alcohol or illegal substances, as well as clothing that is gang-related or depicts violence. Mary Beth Hoerner i Join Sports Page On The Combses, like many families, took a few bricks from the rubble left by a bulldozer and a backhoe in recent weeks.

But their sentimentality ends there. The new North Barrington School will be a jewel in the crown for Barrington Unit District 220. Parents have raised $48,000 toward the purchase of playground equipment, and volunteers are planting an extensive natural habitat for educational purposes. The same parents managed to get 250 Dutch flower bulbs donated from the Mailorder Gardening Association as part of the hands-on gardening project. More significant than the parental involvement, however, is the political significance of the building.

The roughly $9 million structure will be the first completed Working at the Center, instructor Wheaton-Warrenville South High 4th-grade teacher in Dolton, find school districts, it could not apply for as many of these at times lucrative grants and contracts as it wanted. "The mission of the Center has gone out of the realm of the cooperative with Districts 54 and 62," said former Center Director Ron Perlman. Within the past week, both school boards voted to cut ties with the Center. District 54 had a closer relationship to the Center, the school board tunneling Center grants and signing off on administrative decisions made by the Center's board of directors, Cull said. The Center's agreement with the not citing the source, as well as copying other students' computer programs or software files and misrepresenting them as their own.

"This became a problem with the increasing access to the Internet," said Supt. Gerald Chapman of Palatine-based District 211. The policy, which the District 211 Board of Education approved unanimously last week, does not specify punishments, leaving those MHnMMOtfikMMBHIMMMIIHkMaMIHlJ a -a 1 Tl Wllf I'lnlllll ilirifflMtililtH I House o-F Beer By Anika M. Scott Tribune Staff Writer "A Des Plaines-based teacher training organization has severed ties with local school districts, -'enabling it to become not-for-" profit, offering programs to corporations and service groups as well as educators. T- 'The Center, which offers enrich-- ment courses for educators in bilingual and early childhood edu cation in tne norm west suDuros, has ended its pact with Schaum-.

burg Elementary School District 54 and Des Plaines Elementary -District 62, which allowed the to use the districts as fun-1 nels for some state grants. "The Center runs on grants, and some are only paid to school districts," said Ken Cull, associate "superintendent at District 54. "To it had to have an agency to get the funds on its Of its $6 million annual budget, 75 percent comes from State Board of Education grants. District 54 will continue to administer some of those funds for the Center. Center officials hope that in its status as not-for-profit, the agency will receive a larger slice of its funding from corporate con-n.

tracts and foundations that give 1 1 only to not-for-profits. When the Center sought grants in the past, it did so essentially as a school district. In the past sev-. eral years, though, the Center has branched out into services that school districts have less need for, such as citizenship training and corporate workshops. The Center works with, among others, the state Department of Human Services to provide instruction in English and citizen-: ship for immigrants and the Annenberg Foundation in Penn-sylvania, which provides financial support for public school reform.

an organization linked to 13 DteMon "JL With Guest Bill Wennington Tommorrow night CLTVs Sports Page heads out on the road for a LIVE show! So come hang out with CLTVs Lou Canellis and meet Bulls' center Bill Wennington! You could even win some great prizes and giveaways! Plus, you'll have a chance to win MGD Electric Carnival Blind Date Tickets for the Chicago Concert on July 24th! Or tune into CLTV at 9pm for all the fun! Tomorrow Night at 9 DISTRICT 211 New academic dishonesty policy covers A policy on academic dishonesty will go into effect this fall in Township High School District 211. Most of the policy enumerates activities typically considered dishonest, such as cheating, plagiarism and altering grades. What might be new to students is what's forbidden regarding obtaining information through the Internet. The policy warns students against downloading majmrial and.