Jana Silsby of DLR Group presents a new plan for the Columbus School site at Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting. A new school is shown in white and the existing building is grey. Connecting the two would allow them to share public spaces.
NORWALK, Conn. A radically different concept for South Norwalk school construction was unveiled Tuesday by Norwalk Superintendent of Schools Alexandra Estrella. This might mean sending a new application to the State by June 30.
Two schools would be squeezed onto the 3.5-acre Chestnut Street site, one for Columbus Magnet School and the other a neighborhood elementary school, in the rough concept. The new Columbus would face Henry Street. The existing building would be used for a neighborhood K-5 school.
Tuesday’s Norwalk Board of Education meeting on Zoom.
NORWALK, Conn. Surprise capital budget requests got their first public airing Tuesday as the Norwalk Board of Education reviewed its proposed $7 million renovation to the former Briggs High School and a hoped-for $46 million career and technical high school in four or five years.
Neither were mentioned last year or sprang from the much-ballyhooed feasibility study five years ago, but former Board Chairman Mike Barbis praised the Briggs plan, while slamming the efforts to build a new Norwalk High School.
“Norwalk High School’s taking money away from schools that really need it,” said Barbis, former Facilities Committee Chairman. “We don’t need to do Norwalk High School. We know it’s a whole political shenanigan.”
Reasonable schools social media policy up for review in Norwalk
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Teacher Paula Fortuna sets up her technology in the classroom at the Center for Global Studies Friday, October 2, 2020, at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk, Conn.Erik Trautmann / Hearst Connecticut Media
NORWALK The Board of Education will be examining the district’s first expansive social media policy for school staff after a draft was approved by the Policy Committee.
On Tuesday night, the BOE’s Policy Committee approved a nine-page social media policy created with Stamford-based legal firm Shipman and Goodwin that covers permissible social media use for district employees, clarifies the definition between a personal and professional account and outlines consequences for inappropriate use. The proposal will now move to the full board for discussion and possible approval in what could be the first in-depth social media policy for Norwalk Public Schools employees.