By Ben Rodgers Editor BROWN COUNTY – Four area school districts have received grants to address mental health in schools, and each is doing something different to address a problem that is widespread throughout Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction distributed $6.5 million in grants to 120 districts last week as part of the …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – After nearly four hours of back-and-forth discussion, the school board voted not to contract with American Institute of Research (AIR) for a second year of turnaround services at Washington Middle School. In a narrow, 4-3 vote at its special board meeting Monday, July 15, board members voted down …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – The Green Bay Area Public School District has posted the results of its spring Redesign 2020 survey. The goal of the survey was to obtain feedback from the community on the district’s facility concerns and attendance boundaries. The survey also asked the community to provide feedback on whether …
By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – After weeks of discussion the Green Bay school board has approved the hiring of not one, but two outside facilitators to help improve its effectiveness, which all members have acknowledged is a problem. “We as a board have to collectively get our act together,” Trustee Katie Maloney said …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – With hard hats and shovels at the ready, district leaders, students and community members officially broke ground on the Danz Elementary School expansion. “This is a great day for Danz Elementary,” said Principal Kelly Agen. Held on Wednesday, May 15, the ceremony included comments from Agen, Superintendent Michelle …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – The Green Bay school board interviewed two facilitators at a special meeting Monday, May 13, in its continued search of outside guidance to help the group work more efficiently. Beverly Scow, assistant director of Wise Women Gathering Place, was in the boardroom for her presentation and Drew Howick, …
By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – The Green Bay school board plans to conduct interviews next Monday with four outside facilitators as it continues to seek guidance on how to work more effective as a board. “We as a board have to collectively get our act together,” Trustee Katie Mahoney said. “We need a …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – One of the few things the Green Bay school board agreed upon at its regular board meeting April 22 was that it doesn’t agree on much. And that is something all could agree needs to change in order for the board to move forward and work more efficiently. …
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By Press Times Staff Five candidates are vying for three seats on the Green Bay Area Public School District Board of Education on April 2. Brenda Warren, current board president, who has served on the board since 2004, is seeking reelection. Kristina Shelton is also seeking a new three-year term. She has been on the …
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By Kevin Boneske Staff Writer GREEN BAY – The Green Bay Area Public School District is seeing red in its financial future. The district’s board of education spent more than an hour Monday, March 4, discussing proposed changes to benefits to take effect July 1, particularly medical insurance, as outlined in a memo from Chief …
