Thursday, February 28, 2013
The county school superintendent will share his love of reading with Boston fourth graders.
Boston Elementary School is expecting a star-studded list of guest readers to help promote literacy and a love of books at Friday morning's Read Across America event. Former Boston administrators Les Conley, Susan Newman, Mary Raley, Claire Davis, and Val Bahum will return to the school as guest readers and share some of their favorite books with students. Superintendent Dr. Frank Petruzielo will make a special appearance at 9:30 a.m. to read to Boston fourth graders. Last year, Dr. P read to second graders at Woodstock Elementary School. Read Across America Day is celebrated every year on March 2, the birthday of Theodor Geisel, better known to the world as Dr. Seuss. As March 2 falls on a Saturday this year, schools across America will …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
The board will vote on the proposed 2013-14 school boundaries in December.
The Cherokee County School Board will hear from the public tonight on its annual school boundary reconfiguration process. The board will hold a public hearing input meeting at 6:30 p.m. at the historic Canton High School/School Board Auditorium. It will also hold its regular meeting at 7 p.m. in the same location. The Cherokee County School District will open a replacement E.T. Booth Middle School facility in August and district staff met with parents of students who would feed into the facility to discuss the possibility of altering the grade configuration of three elementary schools. A new Booth facility would have capacity of 1,500 and the district would like for the facility to encompass grades sixth through eighth. That would mean …
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Boston and Woodstock Elementary were named Highest Performing while Teasley Middle was named a High Progress school.
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Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Three Cherokee County School District institutions have been named to the Georgia Department of Education's list of Reward Schools. Woodstock and Boston Elementary schools in Woodstock have been deemed a Highest Performing school and Teasley Middle School in Canton has been named a High Progress School. The list, part of the state’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) flexibility waiver, is for schools that have the highest performance or biggest academic gains by its students in the last three years. The High Progress School label is for Title I schools that have made the most progress in improving the performance of the "all student" category over a three-year period on statewide exams. A school can't be classified in this …
Monty Brewster
9:47 am on Sunday, November 4, 2012
What about politicians that use millions of taxpayer dollars to pay for personal real estate bungles? Seems like you forgot your disdain as you hopped in their pockets. more ›