Districts in hiring frenzy before kids return to school – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
What there is to know There are hundreds of vacancies for teachers and staff across the Metroplex and there is only one month left to find staff. Summer is also a common period for retirements and resignations. Many new positions have been created with federal relief money. There is a hiring frenzy across the country …
Editorial: Bend’s New School Principal Will Need Your Help | Notice
You can roughly count the number of days the principal of Bend’s new school, Steve Cook, worked on two hands. He’s already planning to do some things differently. The neighborhood board meetings are like many board meetings: hours with flurries of important decisions. Who has time to sit through this? Some people do. We would …
New York’s plan to move homeless people out of hotels blocked by judge
The mayor’s claim that hotels should free up rooms for tourists is challenged by the industry itself. “It is absolutely imperative for many hotels that this program continue,” said Vijay Dandapani, president of the New York Hotel Association last week. Even counting the homeless, occupancy rates are low, he said, and the lack of demand …
Hello, Cambridge School District | Cambridge News / Deerfield Independent
I am pleased to report that I have fully integrated my role as Superintendent. I also moved to town and you could see me with my English Setter pupcake, Daisy! Superintendent Margaret Banker and Bruiser. Cambridge School District I will be spending most of the summer learning about the functions of the district office, planning …
Daleville School District Responds to Lawsuit in Indiana Demanding $ 150 Million From Closed Online Schools – WISH-TV | Indianapolis News | Indiana weather
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – The leaders of two now-closed Indiana online charter schools are accused in a new trial defraud the state of more than $ 150 million by increasing student enrollments and inappropriately paying money to a network of related businesses. The trial announced Monday by the Indiana Attorney General’s Office comes nearly two years …
Fish Creek Author’s New Book Tells of Teaching in Foreign Countries
FISH CREEK – A high school in Appleton, Italy and Kuwait may seem far from a “Little House on the Prairie”, but Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic books are a big part of what inspired a resident in time Part of Fish Creek Carol Hoffman to write down her teaching experiences in foreign countries. His memoirs …
JMCSS can use grant funds to relocate central office and renovate Oman arena
Over $ 2.3 million in devices for students and teachers and over $ 460,000 in software for virtual learning were at the center of the Jackson-Madison County school system used to reopen schools in 2020 thanks to federal grants. Dozens of projects aimed at addressing learning loss, technology, and other school projects made up the …
Napa kids get extra help with summer school: learning impacted COVID-19 | Local News
“The NVUSD Camp is an incredible opportunity to return to some normalcy and have a high quality day camp experience where they will interact with their peers and benefit from a range of projects from engineering to art and everything else, ”he said. The NVUSD camp, along with a proposed high school summer program, was …
Groups push to vaccinate students before school year begins – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
As schools prepare to open next month, a Dallas-based molecular diagnostics company and non-profit organization have teamed up to offer free COVID-19 vaccines to students and families on Saturday. For many school districts in North Texas, the first day of school is August 16. Dallas-based GeneIQ Vaccine Direct has partnered with the Dallas Children’s Advocacy …
Prosecutor: Man accused of cocaine poisoning could flee | Georgia News
MACON, Georgia (AP) – A former Georgia school administrator accused of poisoning his sick wife with a cocaine overdose has been denied bail after prosecutors told a judge that telephone conversations tapes showed him trying to collect a passport and money. The Telegraph of Macon reports that Edward Judie Jr., charged with felony murder in …