CARE Takes Issue with District 112 Survey

CARE - the political action committed that formed in Highland Park more than a month ago to oppose a proposed $150 million school-reconfiguration referendum that would have been on the ballot year, has released information regarding a January survey created by the district to gauge the community’s interest in a seven-building model that would have created a single middle school campus for all 5-8 graders in North Shore School District 112 at the site of Red Oak and Sherwood.

There were “several inherent problems” associated with the survey, the group claims.

CARE, which now stands for Citizens Actively Renewing Education, calls into question a number of issues from the survey including the order of questions, how questions were stated and even claims some questions were “error-ridden,” such as one question that included a wrong number when it came to the cost of the proposed plan.

The group, which posted the results in addition to their collective analysis of the survey, also questions why one important question was not asked.

“The survey presents a binary choice between the supporters and opponents of the six-school plan,” the analysis reads. “Nowhere is the question asked, “Would you support a plan that was endorsed by the community in the SCFFAC report to the Superintendent, a plan that called for two 6-8 middle schools in addition to neighborhood K-5 schools?” Why was that not asked?”

The District 112 board of education dropped plans to vote on whether the referendum would be on the ballot for voters in Highland Park and Highwood this year, instead opting to gather more information and shoot for a school reconfiguration plan to be ready in 2016.

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District 112 Postpones Referendum

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