Thursday, February 21, 2013
Cheryl Witham will replace retiring Associate Superintendent Donald Goers at New Trier Township High School District 203.
New Trier Township High School District 203 has hired Cheryl Witham as the new assistant superintendent for finance and operations, replacing Donald Goers who is retiring after 15 years with the district, according to a press release. Witham is currently Assistant Superintendent of Finance and Operations at Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 and will start work at New Trier this summer. The New Trier Board of Education approved her appointment Tuesday. “Cheryl impressed us with her range of experiences inside and outside of school district business offices, her knowledge of the factors that impact school finance, her wise management of resources in her current district, and her warm and engaging personality,” Dr. Linda …
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Dr. Timothy Dohrer, Winnetka Campus Principal since 2009, will leave at the end of June to take a new position at Northwestern University.
After serving New Trier High School for 23 years, Dr. Timothy Dohrer, Winnetka Campus Principal since 2009, will be resigning at the end of June to take a new position at Northwestern University, according to a press release. District 203 Board of Education approved Dohrer’s resignation Tuesday night, effective July 1 and will begin a search for his replacement. “Tim has been a tireless supporter of New Trier and a valuable leader in a number of roles for more than 20 years,” Dr. Linda Yonke, District 203 Superintendent, said in a statement. “We will miss his leadership, his enthusiasm, and his devotion to the school. While his departure is a loss to New Trier, it is a gain to the teaching profession as he helps train the next generation…
Friday, October 26, 2012
More than half the teachers at New Trier make a six-figure salary. Fifteen administrators do as well.
More than 200 teachers at New Trier High School District make more than $100,000 a year in base salary. The district superintendent explains that as the cost of having good schools. According to data supplied by the Illinois State Board of Education for the 2010-2011 school year, the most recent data available, over half of the nearly 400 teachers at New Trier have annual salaries north of $100,000. That figure does not include monetizing the benefit packages the teachers receive. New Trier Superintendent Dr. Linda Yonke says that good schools are the byproduct of good teachers. “We (recently) asked the community in a survey what was the most important for the schools to do, and the number one response was to recruit and retain high …
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Monday, September 17, 2012
New Trier Township High School District 203 Superintendent Linda Yonke hopes families use this incident to reinforce internet safety.
Winnetka police are in the preliminary stages of investigating inappropriate text and emails involving New Trier High School students, according to a press release. Winnetka Police Department is working with New Trier High School and the news release contained little detail regarding the incident. “The police department really has no further comment regarding that as it is a current and fluidly evolving investigation,” Winnetka Deputy Police Chief Joe Pellus said. “If at some point in the near future some things break out, we may have additional information, but at this time we don’t have any.” It is unclear how many students are involved in the investigation but Chicago Tribune reported the students sent inappropriate photos to other …
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
A New Trier senior created a documentary of the people who help keep the school clean.
New Trier Township High School District 203 school board members got a behind-the-scenes look at what it takes to keep the school’s two campuses looking their best at their Aug. 20 meeting, thanks to a video documentary made by 2012 graduate Mikey Borushek as part of a senior project. Borushek interviewed custodians on all three shifts to find out what they do, as well as showing them sweeping up mounds of trash left behind by the students. District 203 Superintendent Linda Yonke said the video will be shown to all students in their advisory periods this year. Earlier: New Trier Turf Field Comes in Under Budget Take More Notice The video was Borushek's way of suggesting to his fellow students that they should take more notice of the …
Friday, June 8, 2012
New Trier Township High School District 203 has extended Superintendent Linda Yonke's contract by two years.
New Trier Township High School District 203 school board extended the contract of Superintendent Linda Yonke by two years during Tuesday's board meeting. The new deal will keep Yonke in the district until June 2016. “I’m very please we’re offering this contract to Dr. Yonke,” said school board member Peter Fischer. “The district is in a very strong position at this time, and that is directly related to the leadership of Dr. Yonke.” “This is a wonderful place to be an administrator and it makes it easy to stay,” Yonke said. Earlier: New Trier Allows Facilities to be Named After Donors The extension comes at a time when several other New Trier administrators are retiring or approaching retirement, and Yonke’s continued leadership will …
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
New board members will take a turn in the president and vice president seats. Superintendent Linda Yonke thanks outgoing officers for their service.
There has been a changing of the guard for the New Trier Township High School District 203 school board. The board unanimously chose board member Alan Dolinko as the new president and Mac Harris as the new vice president. Lou Anne Kelly, the secretary to Superintendent Linda Yonke, will continue to serve as the school board secretary. Yonke thanked the outgoing officers, former Vice President Carol Ducommon and former President John Myefski for their service. Ducommon has served three terms as a board officer since Yonke has been superintendent, she said. Earlier: New Board Members Elected When it comes to being president, Yonke said, the duties go beyond what happens at meetings. "It's doing everything in between," she said. Dolinko …
Friday, February 24, 2012
The district also plans to keep its merit-rating system.
New Trier Township High School District 203 is getting ready to implement requirements of two Illinois school reform laws about the ways that employees are evaluated and the ways the district determines which teachers to let go if the district must lay off people. New Trier Superintendent Linda Yonke said the district will keep its existing categories for teacher ratings, which go up to merit level five. Those ratings will correspond to the four levels that the new state law requires: Excellent, Proficient, Needs Improvement and Unsatisfactory. The top two levels of New Trier’s ratings will both be considered “Excellent.” She discussed the plan Feb. 21 at the school board meeting on the Northfield Campus. Earlier: New Trier Teachers Get …
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9:28 am on Saturday, October 27, 2012
“Our teachers are not the highest paid in the state or in the area and we do offer a competitive salary and benefit package comparable to those districts around us,” Yonke said. Gee thanks for that. Is almost $200 per classroom hour fair pay? more ›