Dueber Elementary News Today

Roughly 45% of the Canton City Schools District’s 3,400 students in kindergarten through fifth grade are attending a new building this school year.

CANTON  Massive changes in the way Stark County’s largest school district educates its students are coming. The five-member Canton City school board on Wednesday approved the district’s Design for Excellence plan, which reconfigures nearly every school building in an effort to reduce operating costs while providing more educational opportunities for students. The changes will be in place when its first students return Aug. 19. The first day for most students will be Aug. 20.  To see a c...

Three months after Jeff Talbert conducted a virtual listening tour to hear from residents, the Canton City Schools superintendent was back on tour answering their questions about the district’s sweeping restructuring proposal. Talbert spent more than five hours during five virtual community meetings over the past two weeks fielding questions about the Design for Excellence plan, which restructures each of the district’s 22 school buildings in an effort to reduce the number of buildings and ...

CANTON  Richie Harper will walk his 7-year-old son to Dueber Elementary today for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began. They are both excited that the first-grader will get to see his friends and teachers again after so many months of virtual learning. The return is bittersweet for Harper as it comes with the backdrop of knowing that Dueber, a place he attended roughly 20 years ago, likely won’t be open for his son, Chandler Abbuhl, next school year. Canton City Schools Supe...