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Members of the Maricopa Unified School District, from left, Torri Anderson, Robert Downey, AnnaMarie Knorr, and Ben Owens turn the ceremonial first shovels of dirt at the groundbreaking event for the district s second high school. Photo by Jay Taylor.
The Maricopa Unified School District took a step toward a new future when it broke ground on the city’s second high school Friday. Located on an 80-acre parcel at the southwest corner of Murphy and Farrell roads, the new school is scheduled to open in July 2022.
Approximately 100 invited guests, attended the event, including the mayor Christian Price and the city council, MUSD governing board, members of the construction team, and Ak-Chin Indian Community chairman, and the school facilities board.
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“I want to move toward us not being the COVID police,” said AnnaMarie Knorr, vice president of the Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board at Wednesday s meeting. Photo by Jay Taylor
After a brief hiatus, COVID-19 and mask mandates returned for discussion at the Maricopa Unified School District Governing Board meeting on Wednesday. This time, however, a policy changed indicated progress against the virus.
The board voted unanimously to accept the recommendation of Dr. Tracey Lopeman, district superintendent, to require masks indoors in its schools and buildings through the end of the school year on May 27. During that period, masks outside will be recommended, but not required.
RENT strikers joined forces with cleaners today to hold a rally against a London university’s “indifference” to their struggles.
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was among the speakers who addressed the protest outside the London School of Economics (LSE), attended by hundreds of students and staff.
He told crowds that injustice and inequality in society can only be addressed through “people coming together in solidarity with each other.”
“Which is exactly what you’re doing here today,” he declared. “Unity is strength!”
Unite assistant general secretary Howard Beckett also spoke at the protest along with Green Party figures.
The protest comes as hundreds of students at the university continue to withhold their rent and tuition fees, in protest at being asked to fork out huge sums despite significant disruption to their learning due to the pandemic.
Incendo starts production of two romcoms ‘Written in the Stars’ and ‘The Secret Sauce’ 21 Apr 2021 / 11:50 H.
Good news for all romcom fans! Incendo and Screentime New Zealand have commenced production of two more films,
Written in the Stars and
The Secret Sauce.
Golden Boy, Funny Girls, Together Forever Tea) and David De Lautour (
Wentworth, Westside, Touch).
The story follows Kelsey who works at a magazine and had her pitch about a sceptic’s take on love and horoscope approved. She was teamed up with an astrology guru named Carter. Clearly from opposite worlds, they put their competing perspectives aside to work the story around a local meteor shower festival. Through both fact and fate, they soon unearth that love really can be written in the stars.
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The Maricopa Unified School District is getting ready to invest in a new science curriculum.
The district is evaluating potential vendors to provide both curriculum and textbooks to all the district’s K-12 schools at a cost of about $1.7 million.
According to the district, the Teaching and Learning department is responsible for the adoption process, which starts with teachers voting on the curriculum, followed by Governing Board approval, purchase of the materials and delivery, which will come in time for the start of the 2021-22 school year.
Student achievement data will be reviewed each semester using benchmark data and yearly using state assessment data.