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Board chairwoman enters rehab By KEVIN P. CRAVER kcraver@shawmedia.com WOODSTOCK – McHenry County Board Chairwoman Tina Hill is taking a monthlong leave of absence after her arrest early Friday morning on suspicion of driving under the influence. Hill, R-Woodstock, is taking medical leave to enter a rehab program at the Rosecrance Health Network treatment center in Rockford, she said Friday afternoon. Her arrest comes as a number of her
Hill takes medical leave after arrest on suspicion of DUI fellow County Board members have privately debated Hill’s ability to carry out her duties in the wake of erratic behavior at two meetings earlier this month. Tina Hill “I realize that I’ve got a problem, and I’m seeking help,” Hill said on the way to the rehab facility.
Hill, 54, of 230 Verbena Lane, was arrested about 1:40 a.m. in the 1000 block of North Seminary Avenue, Woodstock Police Chief Robert Lowen said. He said she was cooperative and did not bring up her elected office. But she experienced chest pains at the police station during processing and had to be taken for several hours to Centegra Hospital – Woodstock for observation. The incident prevented her
from taking a breath test, but blood was drawn at the hospital and sent to the Illinois State Police crime lab for testing, Lowen said. She also was cited for improper lane use and driving without a license on her person. The debate over Hill’s competence to serve, and her subsequent arrest, comes in the final two months of her first term as chairwoman, and as the County Board works to
adopt a Unified Development Ordinance, a 2015 budget and a stormwater management ordinance before the new board is seated in December after the midterm election. Under County Board rules, Vice Chairman James Heisler, R-Crystal Lake, will lead the board until her return. Heisler, first elected in 1992, is the board’s longest-serving member. “I’m going to cover the
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meetings the best I can and do everything a chairman is supposed to do,” Heisler said. County Board members began expressing concern about Hill’s competency after her performance at two meetings. She exhibited erratic behavior at an Oct. 1 evening meeting to go over amendments to the proposed UDO and at an Oct. 3 budget workshop in which members said she could be seen nodding off. Hill said Friday she was
See HILL, page A4
Ebola screen measures backed by federal law By ERIC TUCKER The Associated Press
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Hannah Beardsley Middle School seventh-graders raise their hands to answer questions in Rachelle Dool’s Language arts class Thursday during an exercise on feature articles in Crystal Lake. According to District 47 spokesperson Denise Barr, in preparation for the PARCC test in the spring, the new style of teaching with the Common Core standards pushes students deeper in engagement in the content across classes. This is the first year Illinois students will take the new standardized test aligned with Common Core standards.
McHenry County schools adjusting curriculum to Common Core standards By STEPHEN Di BENEDETTO sdibenedetto@shawmedia.com CRYSTAL LAKE – Inside Jamie Trow’s classroom at Hannah Beardsley Middle School, the seventh-grade language arts teacher sees her students wanting to learn more under a more challenging curriculum this year. Her role as teacher also has evolved. She still provides lessons, where students are expect-
ed to recall answers. But she also can roam around class and help students reach their own conclusions, challenging them to use their critical-thinking skills. The change in instruction this year across Crystal Lake District 47 was by design. Trow and her colleagues at all grade levels worked in committees this past spring and summer to rewrite and align the district’s curriculum with the new, and controversial, Common Core
standards. Despite the push from politicians and pundits to have Illinois and more than 40 other states delay the Common Core, the rigorous standards merely help districts adjust their own curricula and better prepare students for life after school, Trow said. “We still have a lot of jurisdiction over what the instruction looks like in our classroom. ... We know how capable our kids
are firsthand,” Trow said. “Anything that is going to really ask me to challenge them, hold them accountable and make them feel pride in themselves when they do accomplish higher-level work, I think is going to be a good thing.” Across McHenry County, school districts have been using the new standards – and the emphasis on critical-thinking
See COMMON CORE, page A4
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WASHINGTON – The government’s authority to screen airline passengers for potential Ebola exposure and order them quarantined if necessary is far-reaching and rooted in the Constitution and federal law, public health experts said. Temperature checks of passengers arriving from three West African countries experiencing the Ebola outbreak, along with other screening measures, will begin Saturday at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and expand over the next week to four other major American airports. The measures may seem intrusive but are legally permissible because of the government’s broad authority in matters of public health and border control, experts said. “It’s really not different in kind to security screenings you have to go through at the airport,” said Michael Dorf, a Cornell University constitutional law professor. “If somebody doesn’t like being screened for weapons and they sue, they’re going to lose.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cite as legal authority the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, under which the government regulates trade with foreign countries. The 1944 Public Health Service Act also allows the federal government to take action to prevent communicable diseases such as Ebola from spreading into the country and between states. “One can argue whether the Obama administration waited too long, but I think it would be irresponsible for the administration not to use its legal authority to protect the health of the public,” said Peter Jacobson, a University of Michigan professor of health law and policy. “Otherwise, why bother?”
See EBOLA, page A4
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