Sunday, Jun. 13, 2021 | SRD Champion, MHS Dean Wooleyhan, Michael De Beauvoir, SRD Landi and MHS staff. Courtesy photoBuy this Photo Share by: Melissa Morreale Public Affairs Officer, Flagler County Sheriff s Office
Flagler County Sheriff s Office Youth Services Commander Kim Burroughs visited three local schools June 3 to present three exceptional students with awards for being “Great Kids” for the month of May 2021.
“We are ending the school year with presenting three remarkable kids in Flagler County with the Sheriff’s Great Kid Awards,” Sheriff Rick Staly said. “The kids receiving the awards for May are all doing wonderful things throughout our schools and community. They’ve shown many leadership qualities, as well as kindness and respect to their teachers and peers. We want them to know we appreciate their efforts and hope they’ll continue to represent our county in great ways. We are here to help and support their goals in ever
Blurry but timeless: a young Josh Crews doing what he liked best. He’d have agreed with something the narrator of Richard Flanagan’s “Gould’s Book of Fish” says: “Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us of what God once reminded us before He too evaporated in this age of relentless humiliations–that we are more than ourselves; that we have souls. And more, moreover.” (The photograph was contributed by his friend Joe Rizzo.)
Josh Crews could be quick on the draw with a pen. Take his “Rosalita,” the page-and-a-splash story prefacing this year’s 10th-anniversary annual anthology of student writing that bears his name: in just a few broad strokes, two friends heading for the Bahamas board a boat that appeared to be in distress. It’s a trap. A violent coke-trundling man, his gun and his Rosalita want the two friends to take them to America. Big fight. Rosalita and her man (to whom she
Flagler Schools middle schools will gain a grade and elementary schools will lose one if the district moves forward with plans to shift sixth graders from elementary to middle schools in the 2022-2023 school year.
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Moving the sixth graders will raise the district s overall student capacity and add space in overburdened elementary schools, but also put more pressure on middle school campuses, requiring the district to rezone all of the schools.
The district s current grade level arrangement groups children together in elementary schools from kindergarten to sixth grade, then groups seventh- and eighth-graders for middle school, and ninth- through 12th-graders for high school.
2 months ago Share The district will pay for a new impact fee study and look at ways to lessen overcrowding, such as rezoning.
When calculating the fees that the developer of a proposed community on John Anderson Highway should pay to offset the number of students the new homes will generate, the school district initially got it wrong, undershooting the number based on outdated data and leading the School Board to reject it.
The district has fixed that error and come to an agreement with the developer of the proposed community, called the Hammock Beach River Club and formerly known as The Gardens.
2 months ago Share The Gardens residents would be zoned to two over-capacity schools. The developer will have to pay to mitigate the development s impact on the school district.
Old Kings Elementary and Flagler Palm Coast High School are over capacity, and the developer of a proposed residential community that would add more students to those schools will have to pay to offset the development s burden on the school district. I’m still not clear on why we would adopt or approve something when we know that there’s an error, when we have an opportunity to correct that error.
COLLEEN CONKLIN, School Board member