OXFORD â Granville County Public Schools officials have downsized their central office staff to save money.
A special school board meeting on Tuesday saw members approve the elimination of an assistant superintendent position, the reduction from 16 to 12 of the number of director-level salaried positions in the central office, a restructuring of the entire Curriculum & Instruction and Student Services Department and a shift of several district-based positions to school-based positions
The board also agreed to the use of grant funding to pay for school-based positions.
âJust as our board is taking on the difficult task of school reorganization, so too must we streamline staffing in our central services,â Superintendent Alisa McLean said, alluding to the ongoing discussion of another round of school consolidation. âThese changes will also eliminate our reliance on state and local dollars. We must capture efficiencies and reduce staffing while maintaining quality
Community Bulletin Board: Criterion Sentinel (for April 21)
The Metuchen Arts Council is joining with the Metuchen Human Relations Commission to schedule virtual Community Conversations around the issues highlighted in 2021 Windows of Understanding Public Art Project.
The third in the series will take place at 7:30 p.m. April 21 on the topic of climate change. Artists Lauren Curtis, Maja Opacic and Mickey Waring were commissioned by the Metuchen Arts Council to create art that illuminates the mission of the Edison Greenways Group. Walter Stochel, vice president of the group, will participate in the discussion about their mission and their work to enhance the quality of life in our community.
Climate change is one topic addressed by Windows of Understanding Public Art Project
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The Windows of Understanding project focuses on awareness around social justice issues impacting local communities.PHOTO SUBMITTED BY ROBERT DIKEN
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The Windows of Understanding project focuses on awareness around social justice issues impacting local communities.PHOTO SUBMITTED BY ROBERT DIKEN
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The Windows of Understanding project focuses on awareness around social justice issues impacting local communities.PHOTO SUBMITTED BY ROBERT DIKEN
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The Windows of Understanding project focuses on awareness around social justice issues impacting local communities.PHOTO SUBMITTED BY ROBERT DIKEN
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The Windows of Understanding project focuses on awareness around social justice issues impacting local communities.PHOTO SUBMITTED BY ROBERT DIKEN
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When I was a teenager, beauty was low-tech. It was also DIY. Nobody I knew ever went to a salon for anything other than a haircut or colour (or, in the â90s, god forbid, a perm). Instead, we attempted to live our best beauty-therapy lives at home: waxing, bleaching, masking (the mud pack variety, rather than the global pandemic one), French manicuring. Oh, the French manicure, the pink-polished nail, finished with a fine white line painted along its tip: surely the very definition of the pointless, impossible beauty task. We must have been mad.