another blog about school

This month, the school board has been discussing what sort of bond proposal to make to allow continued funding of projects in the district’s...

The state recently released some “post-secondary readiness” data about Iowa high schools. Specifically, there are charts showing the colle...

Some of the things on the agenda for this week’s school board meeting: A report from the Student Climate Survey Task Force The speci...

I enjoyed last night’s school board listening post on the facilities master plan at Kirkwood Elementary School. About twenty people (and se...

In preparing for the board’s discussion of the facilities master plan and possible bond proposals, I updated my chart showing projected enro...

This week, among other things, the board will hear an update on the district’s progress on the issue of seclusion enclosures (previous post...

At our last board meeting, I moved to prohibit next year’s ninth-graders from transferring into Liberty High from outside Liberty’s attendan...

At a board meeting last month (the one I missed due to illness), the board approved an administrative proposal to change the junior high and...

I’ve been posting about how small schools tend to generate outlier class sizes. These posts naturally raise the question: What can we do t...

A few weeks ago, I posted a “class size math problem” to illustrate how small elementary schools tend to generate outlier class sizes. The...

At our last work session, the board agreed that the administration should form a committee to determine best practices and consider potentia...

A few weeks back, at a meeting I had to miss because of illness, the school board discussed the district’s relationship with the local polic...

Sorry, I was knocked out for a few weeks by a seasonal illness and have been unable to keep up the usual posting here. I’m still catching u...

In my last post , I discussed how smaller elementary schools tend to generate more outlier class sizes. Before I explore possible ways to m...