This is the letter that Diane Vespa — a friend and fellow blogger — sent to members of District 150 Watch, the group Diane helped form to fight the district’s mostly abandoned effort to drastically shorten the school day for grade school students so that teachers would have group planning time.
Hello all!
As you may recall, [...]

Laura Petelle, an attorney and a member of Illinois Central College faculty, will run for the Peoria School District 150 Board of Education. She is running for the 3rd District seat being vacated by Mary Spangler.
Regular readers of this blog might know her better as “Eyebrows McGee,” the name she uses on her blog.
My two [...]

C.J. has already posted about a report 1 in 4 city employees don’t live in the city. There’s already been a ton of comments.
I’ve posted about this topic before (here , here and here, among other times).
This issue drives me insane. Does the city have NO say in this matter? The way its been explained [...]

Peoria Anti-Pundit rightfully calls me to task for not raising a fuss about the situation described in this Journal Star article from two days ago.
Peoria School District 150 is just two properties away from having bought all the land it needs to clear to make way for the new birth-to-8th-grade school it will use to [...]

Yeah, I used to do Newsbytes on an almost daily basis. I let is slide a couple of times, then got out of the habit. Well, hopefully, it’s back for good. All links via the Journal Star unless noted.

They’re down to just three candidates for Peoria City Manager. But the juicy paragraph in this article [...]

District 150 took a step closer to getting a charter school established in Peoria last night. Here is the graph that left me asking more questions:
A charter school acts and works autonomous from the rest of the district - hiring its own staff, developing and using its own teaching methods, essentially like a district of [...]

I see from tomorrow’s Word on the Street column that Peoria City Councilman Jim Montelongo is eager to get the city government involved in efforts to create charter schools in Peoria. Failing that, at least get the council to endorse the idea.
On one hand, I’d like to see the city take a more active role [...]

Unless noted, all links are via the Journal Star:

The 18-year-old who was found murdered behind Sterling School apparently had an “unconventional relationship” with the man prosecutors say killed her. No kidding. There was an eyewitness to the murder, they say. And she snitched. Apparently she never got the memo saying that Peorians never talk to [...]