New Lenox Trustee Dye to Speak at State Education Conference

A state education conference this Friday will feature a local face. New Lenox Village Trustee Nancy Dye has been chosen from 90 applicants to speak at the conference to be held Friday in Chicago.

Dye, who helped create a nonprofit foundation to benefit area schools, will present to others on how to accomplish the same.

Three Illinois associations—including school boards, administrators and business officers—worked together on the conference. Dye’s appearance will highlight a panel of school foundation experts, including Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 Board Member Kevin Malloy, Linda Lopez, Executive Director of the D210 Foundation for Educational Excellence, and Mark Denman, superintendent in Danville District 118.

Dye’s contribution has helped New Lenox District 122 raise $45,000 since March 2012, Tribune Media Group reports.

With Dye’s assistance, the New Lenox School District 122 Foundation has raised $45,000 since March of 2012. The funds have been used as grants, for expenses such as technology and art magazines. Dye serves as the executive director of the American Schools Foundation Alliance, a nonprofit group for public school foundations, with 260 members in 43 states.