By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – Sarah Pamperin, a sixth-grade bilingual teacher at Edison Middle School, has been in front of the school board numerous times advocating for her students. However, Pamperin’s testimony Jan. 6 regarding special education open enrollment was personal. “I am unfortunately not a resident of Green Bay,” she said. “When …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – The school board will again enforce the 5-minute time limit on public comments, something Board President Brenda Warren said the board has moved away from as of late. “I’ve been getting a fair amount of feedback from multiple places – community, staff, administration – with concerns about our …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – School board members are set to make a possible change to the board’s compensation and expenses policy at their Dec. 16 meeting. What those exact changes will be are still not completely ironed out. After tabling the issue in November, the topic was brought back to the board …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – The Green Bay school board received an update on the district’s dual language immersion program at its meeting Monday, Nov. 4, including changes administration made to the program for the 2019-20 school year. After more than three hours of back-and-forth discussion, it was evident administration and bilingual teachers …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – The Green Bay Area Public School District has been losing students to open enrollment steadily for several years, but it wasn’t a concern, according to administrators. Now the district is seeing a steady decline in overall enrollment, especially over the last three years. Lori Blakeslee, the district’s director …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – After nearly three hours of debate the Green Bay school board adopted a new district-wide dress code policy at its meeting Monday, Oct. 21. Board members were in agreement on the changes to the policy, with the exception of hats and hooded sweatshirts. At the Oct. 7 meeting, …
By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – It was a good day to be a Baird Bee. Students, staff, district leaders, city and county elected officials and community members gathered Tuesday, Sept. 17, for the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Baird Elementary School, the first newly constructed school in the Green Bay Area Public School …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – More than a dozen districts across the state have thrown support behind a resolution to retire Native American mascots, and the Green Bay Area Public School District is now among them. The resolution, which was brought forward by the Wausau School District, calls for the Wisconsin Association of …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – An agenda item meant as a brief update for the school board sparked several parents to speak about what they see as shortcomings in the district’s dyslexia intervention practices. Concerns centered around the district’s literacy practices in wake of the Assembly Bill 110, dyslexia legislation currently being discussed …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – The school board quickly, unanimously and without discussion, approved a 2.44 percent wage/salary increase for staff, administration and educators throughout the district at its regular board meeting Monday, Aug. 19. The increase is retroactive to July 1 of this year for those who are employed with the district …
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