The national debate over whether parents should be allowed to censor certain books from classrooms and libraries has spilled over into Fauquier County, and parents have begun using School Board
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 4/7/2021 4:31:32 PM
Local schools are shifting to a full-time in-person schedule after Governor Chris Sununu ordered last week that all schools in the state must provide parents the option to be in school five days a week by April 19.
The Mascenic Regional School District and the Jaffrey-Rindge Cooperative School District both have grade levels still operating on a hybrid schedule with at least one remote learning day scheduled per week. Both will be eliminating their remote day on April 19, in compliance with Sununu’s order. Other area districts have already implemented a full-time in-person option, either in response to the governor’s order or as part of established reopening plans.
Fort Smith Public Schools #OnTrack program spreads to K-12
Fort Smith Times Record
Towards the end of the fall semester, Fort Smith Public Schools initiated the #OnTrack program to reduce the number of students failing one or more classes. While great progress was made in high school, elementary and junior high schools began to receive attention as well.
During Monday s School Board meeting, Ginni McDonald, director of secondary education, and Mary Ann Johns, director of elementary education, shared statistics about all grades.
McDonald shared that 17% of 12th graders, 41% of 11th graders, 30% of 10th graders and 24% of ninth graders were still in need of help with their studies and are failing at least one class. In junior high, 13% of seventh graders and 15% of eighth-graders are failing at least one course.