Lake Forest
Recent News About Lake Forest
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Former Lake Forest Caucus member: ‘The woke nonsense that's creeping into schools has a negative effect on our community’
Jake Weisser, a former Lake Forest resident and caucus committee member, said one of his reasons for moving to Florida was to ensure quality education for his children. He referenced the impact of Covid on educational achievements and the recent findings of a faculty member at local Deer Path Middle school who was terminated after having an inappropriate relationship with a student at a different school.
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Former Lake Forest Caucus member: Committee members ‘need to be an advocate for the city as a whole’
Jake Weisser, a former Lake Forest resident and caucus committee member, said making the amount of people per ward in the caucus committee by population would potentially be discriminatory. The committee is currently made up of nine members for each of the four wards.
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Former Lake Forest Caucus member: Caucus leadership selection practices is neither ‘a good process or a bad process’
Jake Weisser, a former Lake Forest resident and caucus committee member, said the current process of how the Lake Forest caucus committee has positives and negatives. The executive leadership of the organization is chosen by the president, and the vice president always succeeds the president.
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Former Lake Forest Caucus member: Some members of the caucus ‘want to have more contentious types of elections’
Jake Weisser, a former Lake Forest resident and caucus committee member, said the small faction of people in the community and the Lake Forest caucus committee who oppose Mayor Randy Tack’s election do so on a partisan basis, not based on Tack’s actions as mayor. The discussion was prompted by podcast host Joe Weiss questioning the stance against Tack despite his impact on the community.
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Former Lake Forest Caucus member: Lake Forest mayoral race was ‘not what we were expecting’
Jake Weisser, a former Lake Forest resident and caucus committee member, said the caucus committee vote that occurred to discern support for the mayoral candidates Prue Beidler and Randy Tack was not the process that it should have been. Beidler faced Randy Tack in Lake Forests’ first contested race in years, which resulted in Tack’s election earlier this year.
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Lake Forest podcast hosts: Bidding for superintendents is 'a total waste of tax dollars'
Podcast host Joe Weiss said he does not approve of the competitive nature of superintendents’ positions in public school districts and how it uses tax payer money.
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Lake Forest podcast hosts: School choice is ‘to the school's benefit’
Podcast host Joe Weiss said school choice and letting taxpayers choose where to send their education taxes would benefit both the schools and the taxpayers.
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Lake Forest podcast hosts: It’s good there is ‘a law that's coming into play’ around school administrators’ behaviors
Podcast host Joe Weiss said he is happy to see legislation coming into play to prevent school administrators from being rehired at new schools after poor behavior at another school.