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winnetkacurrent.com SCHOOL<br />
the winnetka current | November 15, 2018 | 15<br />
Migrating through kindergarten<br />
Greeley students<br />
celebrate end of<br />
monarch lesson<br />
with special parade<br />
Submitted Content<br />
The Kindergarten Butterfly<br />
Migration is a culmination<br />
of District 36<br />
students’ annual study of<br />
the life cycle of monarchs.<br />
At Greeley, students<br />
sang songs while they<br />
“migrated” through their<br />
school and neighborhood<br />
wearing their beautiful<br />
hand-painted wings.<br />
The Butterfly Migration<br />
event has been a<br />
Winnetka Public Schools<br />
tradition for more than 30<br />
years.<br />
Greeley School kindergarten teacher Katarina Jaksic<br />
leads her students as they “migrate” around the<br />
neighborhood. Photo Submitted<br />
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School News<br />
District 36 awarded for<br />
outstanding financial<br />
reporting<br />
The Association of<br />
School Business Officials<br />
International awarded The<br />
Winnetka Public Schools<br />
District 36 with the Certificate<br />
of Excellence in<br />
Financial Reporting.<br />
ASBO International’s<br />
certificate recognizes districts<br />
that have met the<br />
program’s high standards<br />
for financial reporting and<br />
accountability. The school<br />
district earned the Certificate<br />
of Excellence for its<br />
Comprehensive Annual Financial<br />
Report (CAFR) for<br />
the fiscal year ended 2017.<br />
“The [certificate’s] mission<br />
is to promote and<br />
recognize excellence in financial<br />
reporting, specifically<br />
through a district’s<br />
CAFR,” ASBO International<br />
Executive Director<br />
John Musso says. “The<br />
CAFR informs parents and<br />
other stakeholders about<br />
the financial and economic<br />
state of the district, making<br />
it an important communications<br />
tool for building<br />
trust and engaging with the<br />
school community.”<br />
By participating in the<br />
certificate program, school<br />
districts demonstrate their<br />
commitment to financial<br />
transparency. Applicants<br />
submit their CAFR for review<br />
by a team of professional<br />
auditors, who provide<br />
feedback to improve future<br />
documents. If the CAFR<br />
meets the requirements of<br />
the program, the document<br />
may receive the Certificate<br />
of Excellence. A district’s<br />
participation in the COE<br />
program can facilitate bond<br />
rating and continuing bond<br />
disclosure processes.<br />
New Trier’s Class of 2018<br />
among top in country on<br />
ACT exam<br />
New Trier High School<br />
recorded its highest ACT<br />
composite score in school<br />
history, 28.0, once again<br />
ranking New Trier among<br />
the highest-performing<br />
schools in the country on<br />
the college entrance exam.<br />
New Trier provided a<br />
school-day ACT exam to<br />
the entire Class of 2018<br />
in addition to the state’s<br />
SAT exam. The State of Illinois<br />
recently switched its<br />
required high school test<br />
from the ACT to the SAT.<br />
The ACT is a college<br />
entrance exam that tests<br />
for academic achievement<br />
in English, math, reading,<br />
science, and an optional<br />
writing portion, with<br />
scores of 1-36 in each category.<br />
New Trier students<br />
performed exceptionally<br />
well in all four areas,<br />
achieving an average score<br />
of 28.7 in English, 27.3 in<br />
mathematics, 28.4 in reading,<br />
and 27.0 in science.<br />
New Trier students have<br />
continued to outperform<br />
their peers across the nation,<br />
showing high achievement<br />
across all course<br />
levels. The Class of 2016<br />
and 2017 both recorded<br />
ACT composite scores of<br />
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27.8, the school’s previous<br />
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A further analysis of<br />
New Trier’s ACT data will<br />
be presented to the District<br />
203 Board of Education<br />
later next month.<br />
School News is compiled by<br />
Editor Megan Bernard at megan@winnetkacurrent.com.<br />
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