another blog about school

As the board embarks on redrawing elementary boundaries in preparation for opening two new elementary schools in 2019, we’re getting a lot o...

This Tuesday, March 1, the school board will hold a special meeting to hear public comment on the redistricting of attendance zones. The b...

Some of the items on the agenda for Tuesday’s board meeting: Transportation appeals. One major item of business will be addressing appea...

This is not a major issue, but I’m upset with myself about it, and I just want to admit that I don’t think I handled it well. At last night...

Because our school district is opening a new high school in 2017, it will need to transition to a new set of secondary (i.e., junior high an...

A couple of weeks ago, as I posted about here , the school board changed our district’s system of providing discretionary busing to some are...

The board actually has three meetings tonight: one in closed session as part of our ongoing evaluation of the superintendent, one regular b...

The school board is beginning the process of drawing new elementary attendance zones in anticipation of opening two new elementary schools i...

Last week the board voted unanimously to change our current system of discretionary busing. Busing is considered “discretionary” when we gi...

After a struggle, I find that I just can’t keep up with the amount of email I’m receiving as a school board member. At first I was able to ...

[ Update : The first version of the post misstated the times of the two listening posts on this issue. The corrected information is below.]...

Sorry to be posting this so late; I was distracted by drafting a longer post about the options for changing the bell schedule, which I hope ...

At tonight’s meeting, the school board will review the district’s Annual Progress Report . (Related links here .) If nothing else, the rep...

[I’ve been putting off the task of posting about the Every Student Succeeds Act, which is the successor to (and in some ways a departure fro...