New advanced studies building at Gainesville High School to include Beulah Rucker Hall Floor to be named for pioneering Black educator Beulah Rucker
If ever there was a place for the legacy of Beulah Rucker Oliver, known by most as Beulah Rucker, to be honored and immortalized, it would be at a school.
And that’s just what will happen at Gainesville High School, after a namesake dedication at the $9 million advanced studies building being constructed on the campus received unanimous support from the Gainesville school board on Tuesday.
The bottom floor of the advanced studies building will be called “Rucker Hall,” in honor of the daughter of illiterate sharecropper parents turned educator.
Hall and Gainesville school districts will begin phasing students back to in-person instruction next week, according to announcements from both districts Thursday morning.
Gainesville City Schools to move online for final days of semester Gainesville High students make their way across campus to their next classroom Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, during a class change. - photo by Scott Rogers
Students in the Gainesville City School District will finish their semester from home, after the district announced Tuesday morning that it will cancel the final days of in-person instruction.
Wednesday, Dec. 16, will be the last day of face-to-face instruction, the district says.
District officials say an increase in COVID-19 cases and exposures in Gainesville and Hall County, as well as other locations where staff live, have meant the system has “reached a tipping point” and is unable to provide coverage in all of its major departments.