Goals of the program included: accommodate/expand from a 1,000-student to a 3,000-student facility integrate technology into every phase of curriculum and facility programs incorporate community use provide a distinct architectural/community statement to the expanded facility, while completely renovating 80,000 square feet of existing space. "We want to give something to the community," said Phillips, a 1975 Trinity graduate.Faced with a burgeoning student population, Lockport Township High School responded with a major expansion program at its East Campus facility. The tutor program will bring in high school and college students, as well as professionals, to help city students with reading, math and science, said Darrell Phillips, executive assistant to Vallas who is coordinating the program. The next step is improving the quality of education. Cutting the waste is the first step, he said. He spoke of the challenges facing the schools and compared it to the way the astronauts in "Apollo 13" were forced to put a square peg in a round hole. "We need to bring more role models into the public school system," Vallas told a group of students and faculty in a visit last week to Trinity Christian College in Palos Heights. Tutors needed: Paul Vallas, chief executive officer of the Chicago Public Schools, is touring colleges and universities in the city and suburbs in search of tutors for a new program called the 10,000 Tutors Initiative. The closing on that deal, financed through developer donations, is scheduled for Dec. The high school district also is purchasing 80 acres in Homer Township that, if needed, could be developed into a high school, Ward said.
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