View Comments
APPLETON - Residents of the Appleton Area School District will get their chance this week to provide feedback on the proposal to rename Lincoln Elementary in honor of Ron Dunlap.
In the next step of a newly-developed district policy to address making decisions about renaming district facilities and buildings, the school board on Monday endorsed a process to notify the community of the possible change, and the format of a survey to gauge the community s perspective.
The survey, which will ask respondents to rank their preferences on five renaming options, will open at 8 a.m. Friday on the district website, and will remain available through 4 p.m. June 18.
If anything changes, Hershman said, parents won t hesitate to change course. When students sign up for tickets, not only are they required to agree to a code of conduct asking them to mask and social-distance, among following other COVID and general safety measures, they re required to acknowledge that if the state of the pandemic worsens, parents reserve the right to cancel. We want to keep our community as safe as possible, Hershman said.
To Kjorlien, it means the world. The class of 2021 kind of got ripped off, Kjorlien said. Having this prom is going to give us the closure we need this year that we can t really get at school because of COVID.
APPLETON - The Appleton School Board is another step closer to deciding whether to rename Lincoln Elementary in honor of longtime principal Ron Dunlap.
At Monday s meeting, the school board unanimously approved a new policy that spells out the process for renaming district facilities and buildings, paving the way for the board to take next steps on the proposal in May.
As laid out in the policy, which states that a school or other major district facility should not be renamed except for compelling reasons as determined by the board, members will vote on whether to proceed with the renaming request.
23 hours ago
On April 16, the CCE Director Search Committee announced that Garrett Singer will serve as the next director of the Center for Community Engagement and Social Change (CCE) starting on May 24. Singer is currently the service coordinator for the Ingram Scholars Program at Vanderbilt University.
According to Singer, the Ingram Scholars Program works toward helping undergraduate students prepare to participate in community engagement opportunities “through community-based learning opportunities.” Singer’s staff biography on the Ingram Scholars webpage states that he is currently working toward an M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration and will be graduating this spring.
Singer further explained that he was drawn to Lawrence because of the university’s and the CCE’s explicit goal of addressing systemic inequity, something that Singer is “honored to be a part of.” He believes that his time as the service coordinator for the Ingram Scholars Program enh
APPLETON - Appleton Area School District high school classes will be extended by 10 minutes starting May 3 through the remainder of the 2020-21 school year.
Approved unanimously at a special school board meeting on Wednesday, the change maintains the district s four-day schedule for high school students but adds nearly three more hours of face-to-face class time per week.
The updated plan also calls to expand the district s in-person targeted support for students in need in grades 7-12 on Wednesdays, when instruction will remain online for most. But district officials didn t provide more details of what that would look like at Wednesday s board meeting.