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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 copy of Wednesday s presentation, click here: Design for Excellence
Two changes in the plan – affecting the district s year-round school, AIM Academy, as well as Belden and Patrick elementary schools – were approved, but continue to be reviewed as they were not part of the original plan presented on Jan. 27. A virtual community meeting for Belden and Patrick parents will be held at 6:30 p.m. March 2 and a virtual meeting for AIM families will be held at 6:30 p.m. March 4. Log-on inf
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 amount of staff to match declining enrollment while giving students more educational opportunities.
“It was good to hear from the community about what was important to them, said Talbert during an interview with The Canton Repository on Friday.
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McKenzie Dalton was on a mission to start a nonprofit to help teens and young adults, but the onset of the pandemic slowed her momentum.
The single mom kept going, and when she saw an ad for a contest sponsored by Pop-Tarts pop up on her Facebook page, she thought it could be the boost she needed to bring Community in the Works to fruition.
Still, Dalton was skeptical that she would win. It was a week before the contest ended and she figured tons of people had already submitted an entry.
To her surprise, she learned earlier this year she won a $2,500 grant as part of the Unwrap the Future Challenge. Twenty grants were awarded to participants across the country.