Middletown schools chief s $92.6 million plan a new, bold vision in education
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The Middletown school district’s central office at 311 Hunting Hill RoadCassandra Day / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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The Beman Middle School, which will replace Woodrow Wilson Middle School at 1 Wilderman’s Way, Middletown, and house sixth- through eighth-graders, will be complete by the start of classes in September.Cassandra Day / Hearst Connecticut MediaShow MoreShow Less
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MIDDLETOWN The Middletown Public Schools’ $92.6 million 2021-22 spending proposal would mean a 2.67 percent rise in spending entirely due to raises, employee benefits and other operating costs.
The coronavirus pandemic necessitated a “new, bold vision in education,” Superintendent of Schools Michael Conner said in his presentation to Common Council members Monday night, one that will “challenge the status quo and change the status quo.”
Topeka West freshman Brenna Rutschmann knew she d been given a great opportunity, but she still wasn t sure if she wanted to take it.
Rutschmann, as well as fellow Topeka Center for Advanced Learning and Careers students Olivia Tatum and Maya Welcher, were given the opportunity to virtually speak to the National School Boards Association during its annual conference and share their thoughts on school on a national stage.
Rutschmann, like her two peers, was a bit nervous about the opportunity, especially considering the national scope of the audience.
But after her friends told her she d be silly to turn down such a momentous opportunity to be a voice for students, she agreed to be on the virtual panel, which included their College Prep Academy English teacher Kathy Foster and Topeka Board of Education member Rev. John Williams.
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Article from 1919 (mcmxix.org), the new journal of the North American affiliates of the ICT.
The United States is now infamous across the world for, among many other things, an extremely poor handling of the Coronavirus, especially given the resources at its disposal. The weeks after the first confirmed cases of Coronavirus in the country were marked by denials of the severity of the virus, or even of the very existence of the virus at all, by the Trump administration. Any semblance of action that recognized the virus as the emergency that it was, was not taken until early March, by which point it had had ample time to spread across the country. The actions taken by both the federal and state governments consisted of very selective closures of certain businesses and workplaces, a pitiful and lackluster attempt at providing PPE and other safety equipment to those workers that were deemed essential to keep society a
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