| BUILDING A BETTER DISTRICTA Movement By Citizens Demanding Transparency, Accountability, and Community Engagement for Central CUSD 301/Burlington in the State of Illinois.Building A Better District is a taxpayer-led movement and is not affiliated with, nor endorsed by, the Illinois State or Kane County Regional Board of Education, nor any individual school district, or administration/Board of Education. |
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| Welcome!Building A Better District is a non-partisan grassroots movement of local taxpayers working together for better educational outcomes for our students in Central CUSD 301 (Burlington, Illinois). OUR VISION is to see Central 30l serve as a model for all Kane County school districts, producing consistently high levels of academic achievement through a collaborative culture that promotes community involvement, curricular integrity, academic rigor, operational transparency, responsible budgeting, accountability, and creating a supportive environment for our staff and teachers. We will achieve this vision by through building strong partnerships between our community, parents, educators, staff, students, and our Board of Education. Key to this success is we have a strong board of education that advocates for student-first policies and taxpayer-sensitive budgets that ensure student achievement is centered in every budgetary decision made at every level in our district! |
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building a better district takes TRANSPARENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY, & TRUST.
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Building A Better District On A Strong Foundation: the Village of Burlington, IL
Between January and March 2024, Building A Better District has had the opportunity to communicate with hundreds of residents across our amazing school district. From texts to Facebook messages, e-mails, phone calls, and in-person meetings, we were humbled over and over by the depth of roots that exist here. Thanks to our work on the recent referendum, Andy, Chuck, and I had the unbelievable experience of meeting so many people in our community that we never would have met and for that we are thankful. We had the opportunity to meet a private citizen from Burlington who paid out of their own pocket to have the CHS Rockets logo painted on the Burlington water tower. This citizen no longer had children in the district, but felt it was a way to show Burlington's connection to and support of Central CUSD301. Who would know this story if you moved here in the last 5 to 10 years? Maybe even before that? How would you know just how deep and strong the roots run here in Burlington? This story has stayed with us as we have listened to some say those without kids in school don't care about our district. While that might be true in other districts, when it comes to Central nothing could be further from the truth. It struck us that the Burlington water tower and its homage to the Rockets is located in a place many families with children on the east side never see. We hope that everyone will take a moment to appreciate the rich history of our community and realize that we have thousands of homeowners here that have a vested interest in supporting smart fiscal investments in our school district. We maybe be Central today, but before Central, we were Burlington and Plato Center and our district is built upon their strong foundations. There are many families here that remember those days, who attended those schools, who had children that attended those schools, and now have grandchildren attending 301 schools...and they are STILL here supporting our school district we are all so lucky to be a part of. Let's do our best to welcome each other to the table to find solutions to all of the challenges we might face here together. Our lives will be richer for it and our community will be strong for it! |