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Just as important: Syble Hopp, a place of belonging

By Heather Graves Staff Writer DE PERE – For five decades, Syble Hopp has sought to be a place where students with intellectual and other developmental disabilities feel like they belong. “I cannot say enough about Syble Hopp,” Julie Taylor, mom of 19-year-old Preston, who has attended for the past 11 years, said. “The staff …

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Just as important: The weight of the job

By Heather Graves and Lea Kopke The Press Times BROWN COUNTY – The job of a special education director is a balancing act between state and federal requirements and a desire to help students and families. Mandates, continuous paperwork, staff shortages, varied student needs, frustrated parents, limited resources, funding struggles – the list of responsibilities …

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Just as important: A secondary education odyssey

By Heather Graves Staff Writer BROWN COUNTY – The transition from elementary school to middle school, and from middle school to high school are milestones for students – new buildings, new kids, new classes, new routines. For special education students and their families these transitions can require copious planning and are oftentimes filled with uncertainty. …

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Biennial

District administrators concerned with biennial budget

By Heather Graves Correspondent BROWN COUNTY – There is much still to come, in terms of specific details, for school districts throughout the state regarding the biennial budget signed by Gov. Tony Evers July 8. District administrators are attempting to read between the lines as they start to determine what the budget means for their …

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Affordable

Residents’ struggle to find affordable, suitable housing

By Jeff Bollier and Nusaiba Mizan Green Bay Press Gazettte GREEN BAY – The search for affordable housing can stall lives, keep families apart, sting with rejection and add stress to the lives of even the most determined housing hunters. In interviews, local residents told reporters their months searching for an affordable place consumed time, …

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Equity

Racial equity committee starting to form plan

By Kynala Phillips Fox Valley 365 BROWN COUNTY – Brown County’s Racial Equity Committee spent its June meeting discussing how the group can best utilize the knowledge and skills already at the table. Three meetings in, the ad hoc committee has spent time networking with potential guest speakers and researching other local governments and nonprofits …

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Affordable

Shortage of affordable housing has deep roots, no easy fixes

By Nusaiba Mizan Green Bay Press-Gazette GREEN BAY – Stacey Burkhart is a community leader. She’s the head of SAGE Green Bay, an organization that fosters the arts in the area, and the owner of Eight Trees Co., where she makes stuffed animals with clothing that has special value to the customer. Besides planning events …

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