The Hauser PTA is looking for parent volunteers for the following committees and events.

Landscape and Traffic Safety Committee
The newly formed D96 Landscape and Traffic Safety committees will meet occasionally with district consultants to help create plans for landscaping and traffic safety improvements. If you are interested in serving on one of these committees, please e-mail Mary Jo Robling at maryjo_robling@hotmail.com. Thanks!

Nominating Committee
An election will take place at our February 6th meeting for two representatives to the committee to nominate the slate of 07-08 Hauser PTA officers. If you would like to be considered for one of these positions, please contact Donna Mitchell at riversidemitchells@aol.com.

Please join all District 96 PTAs for a special presentation on Internet Safety by Cook County Assistant States Attorney Kathy Muldoon, Commander of Cook County Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. On Tuesday, February 6, Hauser PTA will meet in the Hauser Cafeteria at 6:00 p.m., with the presentation by Ms. Muldoon to follow at 7:00 p.m. in the Hauser Auditorium. Children should NOT attend the presentation, as the subject matter is for ADULTS ONLY. Babysitting will not be provided. A copy of the flyer announcing this event is available for download here.

The Hauser PTA general meeting will begin at 6pm in the cafeteria. Food will be served. (The Ames, Blythe, and Central meetings begin at 6:30; feel free to leave the Hauser meeting early if you wish to attend one of those meetings.) The Internet safety presentation begins at 7 pm.

From the Central PTA website:

The District 96 School Board will discuss the 2007-2008 school calendar at the February Board meeting. Under the draft calendar, long vacation breaks will correspond to the same schedule as RB; however, there are other significant changes in the proposed calendar:

• School would begin on Monday, August 27, and the first week would be a 4-1/2 day week. (School has traditionally started on the Wednesday before Labor Day with a 2-1/2 day week.)
• The school year would operate on trimesters, rather than quarters. The first trimester would end at Thanksgiving, the second in late February. The change is intended to maximize the number of “learning weeks” and to allow for more accurate assessment of students.
• Early release days (1:30) would be eliminated, to be replaced with “School Improvements Days,” with students released at 11:30.
• The mid-October break would be shortened, but the Thanksgiving break would be lengthened.
• There would be no substitutes scheduled for teachers working on curriculum, etc.

Copies of the DRAFT calendar and a comparison of the 2006-2007 to 2007-2008 calendar are available for download in Adobe Acrobat format.

Bring your comments about the proposed changes to our February 6th PTA meeting, or e-mail District 96 superintendent Jon Lamberson at lambersonj@district96.org.