Period Project making a difference in Holland Public Schools
HOLLAND An new initiative at Holland Public Schools to provide students with menstrual products continues to grow and be successful.
The Period Project 49423 started earlier this school year and aims to reduce period inequity for female students, while destigmatizing talking about the subject for all students.
“Period poverty or period inequity is the barriers in place for menstruators to access hygiene products such as pads, tampons and liners,” said Candis DeBoer, a Junior Great Books Facilitator for HPS who helped organize the project.
“Period inequity isn’t new, much like food insecurity isn’t new. But the pandemic has served as a catalyst to widen that gap. We recognized that need and decided to try and see if there is a way we could help.”
Two principal hires down and one to go for the Mid-Prairie School District.
The school board last week approved the hiring of Greg Jergens to become the new principal at East Elementary. Superintendent Mark Schneider says Jergens is currently a fourth grade teacher in the Iowa Valley School District and has been teaching for 21 years. He was selected from about 20 applicants to replace Robin Foster, who will be the new principal for West Elementary after Bill Poock submitted his resignation effective at the end of the school year to become Director of Teaching and Learning at the Grant Wood Area Education Agency.
The Knoxville High School Prom is tonight from 7:00 to 10:00 p.m. at the Knoxville Armory. Promenade begins at 5:30 at the east entrance of the high school. After prom will be at the high school from 11:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m.
Junior class sponsor Bridgette Jackson tells KNIA/KRLS News that after students enter the high school, they will be ushered to buses to be taken to the armory, where they will be required to stay until the dance concludes. Any student who drives to prom will give their keys to the valet parking attendants, who will give the student a numbered ticket that matches their key envelope. When the students exit the Armory for the bus, they will show the door person their ticket and they will give the student their keys. View a map at KNIAKRLS.com.
Principal Josh Noble said he hopes to continue the annual day of service. Written By: Leah Ward | ×
Seniors couldn t visit the elderly in person this year, so they wrote letters instead. (Submitted photo)
WORTHINGTON While younger Worthington High School students demonstrated their knowledge Wednesday during the annual Minnesota Comprehensive Assessments (MCAs), seniors showed their hearts by performing a number of acts of service throughout the community.
WHS first tried the senior day of service in 2019, said Principal Josh Noble. Since the seniors don t take the MCAs, Noble wanted to find another way for them to be productive on standardized test day.
Holland schools requests $74M bond on May 4 ballot to renovate elementary schools, improve tech
Updated Apr 14, 2021;
Posted Apr 14, 2021
Jefferson Elementary School, pictured in this MLive file photo, would see $6 million in renovations through a $74 million bond proposal that Holland Public Schools is requesting on the May 4 ballot. (MLive file photo)
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HOLLAND, MI – When Holland Public Schools identified $140 million of school renovations in the district’s 2009 master plan, Superintendent Brian Davis couldn’t imagine asking taxpayers to pay for it all amid the ongoing recession.
So the district cut that amount in half, instead only asking taxpayers for $73 million to fund the most immediate needs, which was paid for through a bond proposal approved by voters in the May 2010 election.