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 – A discussion at the Monday, Oct. 21, school board meeting regarding the possible consolidation of Jefferson and Fort Howard elementary schools on Green Bay’s west side ended with more questions than answers. This left parents, staff and community members frustrated. School board members apologized for a lack of …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – The school board got its first look at the district’s proposed $279 million balanced budget at a special board meeting Monday, Oct. 7, which includes the lowest mill rate since 2010, $9.97 per $1,000 of equalized value. Angie Roble, executive director of finance for the district, said homeowners …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – Emotions ran high Monday, Oct. 7, as teachers, parents and community members from Jefferson Elementary School came out to voice concerns about the proposal to possibly close the school and consolidate it with Fort Howard Elementary School, and repurpose the building into a west side Head Start location. …
By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – The school board took a step forward in its search for the district’s next superintendent by approving the hire of search firm Hazard, Young and Attea Associates, from Illinois, at a cost not to exceed $35,500, at its meeting Monday, Sept. 16. “The selection of superintendent is the …
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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 – 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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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – The district could see an universal dress code revamp before the end of the 2019-20 school year. For more than an hour at the Aug. 5 work session, board members discussed whether a change to the policy – which hasn’t been updated since 2008 – was needed and, …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – The school board may have pushed the vote on whether or not to renew a contract with American Institutes for Research (AIR) to July 15, but that didn’t stop parents from sharing their concerns at the June 17 meeting. Parent Melody Linsmeyer said it has been an exhausting …
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By Heather Graves Correspondent GREEN BAY – School board members took time at their June 17 meeting to recognize a small group of Somali teenagers, who are current and former district students, for the publication of their book “The First Winter: Stories of Survival by Experienced Hearts.” These 12 girls call themselves the United ReSisters. …
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