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Vol. 33, No. 8
February 21, 2018
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Student body more diverse, but not faculty Local schools have few black, Hispanic teachers By BOB SKOLNIK Contributing Reporter
At Riverside-Brookfield High School the sponsor of the African-American and Minority Empowerment Club is white. That’s largely because there are no African-American teachers at RBHS. There has not been a black teacher at RBHS for at least the past 40 years or, perhaps, ever, according to the recollection of several people who have long been associated with the school. In the 2016-17 school year 5.7 percent of RBHS students were black, 34.2 percent Hispanic and 55.5 percent white according to Illinois School Report Card. African-American teachers are in short supply in all of the schools within the Landmark circulation area. There are three black teachers at Lyons Township High School. In local elementary school districts, there is one black teacher and black one social worker at Congress Park School in Brookfield, where 10 percent of the student enrollment is black, and two black teachers in Riverside Elementary School District 96. There are no African-American teachers on the staff at Komarek School in North Riverside, where approximately 13 percent of the students are black. Komarek Superintendent Brian Ganan said there is a full-time substitute teacher at Komarek who is black. See FACULTY on page 7
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TIGHT KNIT: Dan and Mary Margaret Hull will be married 49 years in April. Dan was a Brookfield police offi cer for 20 years before going into the tavern business, all the while coaching dozens of youth and adult sports teams, including the 1985 Little League World Series softball champs.
Brookfield to honor ‘Handsome Hull’ Retired cop, businessman, longtime coach has touched countless lives By BOB UPHUES Editor
Officials will recognize longtime resident, former police officer, business owner and coach Dan Hull on Feb.
26 during a special ceremony to kick off that night’s meeting of the village board, which starts at 6:30 p.m. at the village hall, 8820 Brookfield Ave. Hull, 74, is expected to attend the meeting, where Village President Kit
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Ketchmark will read a proclamation honoring a man whose involvement in the community has been ubiquitous for more than five decades. See DAN HULL on page 11
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