School boards trim staff while avoiding layoffs across four districts
Du Quoin cuts staffing through resignations and new hires with eight teachers taking a $10,000 retirement bonus. Pinckneyville rehiring 23 tenured teachers and pursuing a $1.5 million expansion with grants. Trico issues reduction in force notices but rehiring tenured staff. Tamaroa cuts a teaching aide due to state funding cuts and adjusts state aid formulas reducing district funds by about $17,000 while purchasing social studies texts.
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DU Quoin
Amanda Dearmond
Deana Kelly
Paul Miller
Jana Kuhnert
Russell Reidelberger
Ellen Conte
Patty Weyrich
Steve Imhoff
Imhoff
Miss Higgins
Pinckneyville
Pinckneyville High School
Pinckneyville District
Tim O'Leary
Campbell Hill
Trico School Board
Alice Hohgrefe
Kevin Carruthers
Jennifer Gillespie
Thelma Odom
Kathryn Falkrod
Dawn Ferris
Tamaroa
Billy Toler
Toler
State Board of Education
Knowledge as defense against sex assault workshop speaker says
Katrina Phillips founder of Para-Ninos Consulting discusses sexual abuse awareness with Southern Illinois University Carbondale students. She stresses alcohol as a common factor in impairing decision making and urges open dialogue and clear answers in a monthlong education series on sexual issues. The former officer, now disabled, notes gaps in programs.
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Carbondale
Katrina Phillips
Para-Ninos Consulting Service
Phillips
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Workshops provide guidance on handling sexual assault cases
The article lists hotlines for support including Women’s Center 529-2324 and 800-334-2094, National Domestic Violence Coalition 800-799-7233, Youth Crisis 800-448-4663, and Child Help USA 800-422-4453. It urges calm, safety planning, and evidence gathering, with a workshop for Chad Beights and others. A follow-up session on date rape drugs is set for Thursday at 7 p.m. at Mae Smith residence hall Council Hall Room.
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Mae Smith
Council Hall
Siuc
Sexual Assault Awareness Month events at SIU Carbondale
The Women’s Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale schedules workshops self-defense classes and poetry readings as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Activities include a poetry reading at Longbranch Coffeehouse and sessions on dealing with rape date rape and prevention across campus venues April 6 16 and 30 7 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. contact 453-3655.
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Carbondale
Women’s Center
Jennifer Harris-Forbes
Southern Illinois University
United States
Longbranch
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