2021 Hoover City Dad Brigade back-to-school cleanup is July 31
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Chris Carpenter, at left, hauls in mulch to be spread in the courtyard at Brock s Gap Intermediate School in Hoover, Alabama, as part of the 2020 Hoover City Dad Brigade back-to-school cleanup for Hoover City Schools on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020. He is followed by Aaron Singleton, carrying a bag of weeds and debris that had been picked up.
The seventh annual Hoover City Dad Brigade back-to-school cleanup is scheduled for Saturday, July 31.
Dads and other volunteers are invited to come to Hoover public schools to help get the campuses spruced up in advance of the coming school year, which begins Aug. 10 for students.
Racial omissions in Hoover schools selection process didn’t have to happen, shouldn’t have happened
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Today 6:30 AM
Hoover High School is one of two high schools in the Hoover City School district in Hoover, Ala.
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This all could have been avoided, more than likely. Should have been avoided, actually.
All the tribulation. All the animus and accusations. All the disappointment. Even the anger.
It all could have been avoided if one man, rookie Hoover City Councilman Steve McClinton, had just followed the process a process he inherited and was implemented long ago specifically to avoid just this type of thing.
Hooverâs 2020-21 Teachers of the Year found their true calling
Photo by Erin Nelson.
Katie Thompson, a special education teacher at Riverchase Elementary, meets with her students after being named Elementary Teacher of the Year for Hoover City Schools. Ã
Photo by Jon Anderson.
Hoover City Schools central office staff and Debra Smith, principal at the Riverchase Career Connection Center, inform Pam McClendon, the lead teacher in the Cyber Innovation Academy at RC3, on screen, that she has been selected as the 2020-21 Hoover City Schools Secondary Teacher of the Year on Dec. 17. McClendon was in Montgomery for a family funeral.
Shaw named permanent director for schools foundation
Photo by Erin Nelson.
Shelley Shaw, executive director of the Hoover City Schools Foundation, seen Nov. 24 at Aldridge Gardens.
The Hoover City Schools Foundation, like many nonprofits, had a challenging year in 2020 but was able to bring on a new executive director on a permanent basis.
Shelley Shaw, the wife of Hoover Councilman Mike Shaw, had been serving as interim executive director for the foundation since October of 2019, following the departure of former Executive Director Janet Turner.
A year later, the foundationâs board of directors unanimously decided to make that a permanent change.