Quincy School District
QUINCY — The Quincy Police Department has identified a 14-year-old suspect as the person responsible for the creation of a social media post on Tuesday threatening students at Quincy High School. A Friday afternoon press release from Adam Yates, chief of the Quincy Police Department, said his officers have been working with the Federal Bureau…
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QUINCY – After 11 years and a stint as the board’s president, Sayeed Ali announced he was stepping down from the Quincy School Board at Wednesday night’s meeting. Ali, who was elected to the board in 2013, said he hadn’t planned to run for a third term in 2021, but coming out of the COVID…
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In a Facebook post after Muddy River News reported Roy Webb’s decision to not take the Hannibal superintendent job, Webb took to social media Sunday to defend his actions. He said MRN’s story was “fairly accurate” but “did leave a few gaps in the statement.” As not to take the former Quincy and almost Hannibal…
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QUINCY — Quincy Junior High will get a new freezer/cooler and work will be done at Baldwin Elementary School as part of the Quincy School District’s summer maintenance program. The Quincy School Board Wednesday night approved health/life safety spending on those two projects. Emrick Brothers had the low bid for the the freezer/cooler at $71,414…
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Dear MRN, What Quincy schools have summer school? What are the speed zone times? How long does summer school last? I just want to know where and when 20 mph speed zones are valid. Joni Goodwin, public information officer for the Quincy School District, says summer school is in session at Rooney Elementary, Quincy Junior…
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QUINCY — The decision to consolidate multiple departments as well as rising costs of materials and construction has turned a new Quincy School District facility into an eight-figure project. At Wednesday night’s Quincy School Board meeting, board members unanimously voted to accept the low bid from Maas Construction of $7,050,000 to build what is now…
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Filings for School Boards in Illinois closed Monday evening. Listed below are the people running for those seats in the school district in Quincy and in Adams County.
Read Full Article QUINCY — The Quincy School Board adopted its 2022 tax rate at Wednesday night’s meeting. The levy will bring in nearly $42.9 million in property tax revenue, based in the county’s equalized assessed valuation (EAV). The rate will be around $3.93 per $100 in EAV, which is slightly less than last year’s rate. The levy…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Before exiting to executive session, the Quincy School Board conducted a quick meeting in front of a crowd of about 20 people. The only new business was the approval of the Memorandum of Understanding for the Regional Safe Schools Program. Board members Jim Whitfield and Carol Nichols each received accommodations for Distinguished Board…
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QUINCY — Superintendent Todd Pettit and School Board President Shelley Arns both said Wednesday night the Quincy School District’s policies about COVID are … well, back to what they were before anyone had ever heard of COVID. “We’ve posted on our website our typical flu criteria and what we typically do,” Pettit said after Wednesday’s School Board…
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QUINCY — The Quincy School Board voted unanimously to purchase the 50,000 square foot K&L Arena for $2 million at Wednesday night’s board meeting. With the final inspection of the building and an environmental review of the site completed, the sale will close on Thursday. The School District will now spend the next year and…
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Details will be provided following Wednesday night’s Quincy School Board meeting. QUINCY — The Quincy Federation of Teachers has approved a new multi-year labor contract with the Quincy School District. While Muddy River News has learned that the teachers will receive pay increases in each year of the deal, no official details have been released.…
Read Full Article QUINCY — Quincy School District 172 and the Quincy Federation of Teachers have reached a tentative labor agreement. Reportedly, the contract includes the largest salary increase for teachers since 1989 and deals with insurance and student discipline issues. Neither said wanted to disclose details until the contract is finalized. The union has subgroups representing teachers,…
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QUINCY — Quincy School Board Vice President Shelley Arns said the field has been narrowed in the search for the Quincy School District’s next superintendent of schools. Arns was on Muddy River News This Week and said the eight-person committee has reduced the number of finalists to two and the School Board will be doing…
Read Full Article The government watchdog group, Better Government Association, has updated its salary list for school districts across Illinois, with the latest information from 2019. For Quincy School District 172, salaries for 470 teachers and administrators are listed. Some, such as Carol Frericks, have left the district since 2019.
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QUINCY – The Quincy School District appears to be on its way to following Governor J.B. Pritzker’s Pre K-12 mask mandate for Illinois schools due to an increase in COVID Delta Variant cases. In an e-mail to his leadership team, Quincy Superintendent Roy Webb said “QPS will follow the executive order of the Governor.” David…
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QUINCY — Leroy Rossmiller enjoys sitting on the front porch of his home on Hampshire near the middle of the double-block between 20th and 22nd streets. The wood floor squeaks softly as he leans back in his rocking chair, and the leaves rustle softly in the early morning breeze. And then the buses start moving…
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QUINCY — Quincy Superintendent of Schools Roy Webb wrote in a social media post on Friday morning that his “guidance” to the Quincy School Board regarding how the Quincy School District will deal with its COVID-19 response is being reviewed with the start of school looming next month. “I know many of you have seen…
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Nikki Buehler was happy Friday to finally hear news out of Springfield. The Illinois Department of Public Health issued a press release Friday, stating that it is fully adopting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated guidance for COVID-19 prevention in K-12 schools that also was released Friday. The updated school guidance now aligns…
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QUINCY — Anne Meyer remembers why she became a paraeducator. She had been teaching physical education classes at St. Francis School, but when her daughter, Grace, started kindergarten at Washington School, Meyer changed her teaching role. Fourteen years later, with Grace now out of high school, Meyer knows why she continues as a paraeducator in…
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QUINCY — Sayeed Ali, president of the Quincy School Board, and Brandi Many, the teacher subgroup president of the Quincy Federation of Teachers and Educational Support Personnel, noted how easy recent contract negotiations were. Only three bargaining sessions were needed to reach a deal well before the June 30 contract expiration date. When the last…
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