Jurkovic vows to invest in community
Ready to embrace Holmes County as home, Jurkovic and his wife, Kim, talked enthusiastically about moving to the school district and said they are already scouting property. To invest in the community, you ve got to live in the community, Jurkovic said, acknowledging the decision to leave New Philadelphia was difficult. Some of the (high school) kids are taking it a little bit hard, he said.
While some of his colleagues were disappointed at his leaving, they also were happy for his new path.
Jurkovic, who also has logged experience as an elementary and special education teacher and a middle school principal, met with members of the media following the school board meeting at Nashville Elementary, and after greeting residents who attended the public meeting.
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Jim Brewer
“She has made this a better place.”
So commented Loudonville-Perrysville School Board member Roy Templeman on Feb. 8 when the board accepted the retirement of Leslie Kamenik, a teacher in the school district since 1986 and its technology coordinator since 2000.
Another board member, former L-P Superintendent John Miller, said: “In her time here, she was responsible for the district earning hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to obtain technology or upgrades, and she kept us on the leading edge of technology. Not only that, when things broke, she fixed them.”
Born and raised in Southern California
Kamenik was born and raised in Southern California, and moved with her family to the suburbs of Denver when she was in high school. She graduated from Cherry Creek High School, and while there learned a little about technology from her older brother, who was a software engineer for the Air Force and later a software writer for public sector entities like the Ce
Northwestern School Board tracks academic progress
Linda Hall
The Northwestern Local Schools District board of education heard from district personnel that students learning is making good headway, despite the challenges presented by the pandemic and the combination of classroom and remote learning.
At the elementary school level, the good news is that the recently posted third-grade standardized testing scores documented 58 percent of Northwestern s third-grade students achieving proficiency as measured against just 37 percent of third-grade students statewide reaching the proficiency level.
Comparatively, Our kiddos knocked it out of the park, said Nicole McQuate, the assistant principal of Northwestern Elementary School, telling the board that in January students will be identified for intervention and parents will be notified of the game plan.
An Ashland County jury has found an Ashland County substitute teacher for various local school systems through Tri-County Educational Service Center in Wooster guilty of sexual gross imposition.