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A high school in Dubuque, Iowa offers a really special way that high schoolers can earn PE credits. That s by helping out the local elderly with yard work at their homes. The school that s doing this is the Alternative Learning Center in Dubuque.
What s the Alternative Learning Center All About?
The Alternative Learning Center is an alternative schooling option for at-risk high school students, according to their website. They write that ALC is project-based and designed to engage students that have struggled to find success at their home school. It helps kids get back on track to graduation.
Two team members placed in the top 10 in their categories at the national level. 7:28 pm, May 20, 2021 ×
Among the BPA chapter members recognized at the Park Rapids Area School Board s May 17, 2021 meeting were, front row from left, Mikaela Nelson, Ellie Ulvin, Nadia Yliniemi, Emma Ravnaas and Caitlin Kalita. Back row: Kassidy Ennen, Maeve Bolton, Kelsey Berghuis, Lane Monaghan and Sam Reish. (Robin Fish/Enterprise)
The Park Rapids School Board on Monday recognized members of the high school Business Professionals of America (BPA) chapter who participated in state and national competitions this spring.
BPA adviser Angie Kuehn said 18 chapter members competed virtually at the regional and state levels, and eight of them competed at the national level.
One of the few statistical comforts of the otherwise nightmarish COVID-19 pandemic â that it largely spares young people â is fading: The long-haul symptoms that have stricken many U.S. adults are now hitting those under 20.
A relatively small but increasing percentage of children are struggling for months with extreme fatigue, rapid heart rate, memory loss, depression and other symptoms. In one sign of their growing numbers, the UH Rainbow Babies and Childrenâs Hospital in Cleveland is opening a Long Haul Clinic just for young people, the first of its kind in the country.
Families whose children are afflicted are plunged into a terrifying maze of symptoms that come and go, and have no knowable end point. Katie Krol, 42, got the virus from a co-worker at a Michigan engine plant in March 2020 and brought it home to her two youngest children. All three continue to suffer.
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Park Rapids Schools may not wait to move Grade 8
School board discussion on May 3 turns toward implementing grade reconfiguration as early as the fall of 2021. 3:29 pm, May 8, 2021 ×
One of the top priorities identified in a sticky dot exercise at the May 3 school board meeting was some version of a plan to move Grades 7-8 from Century School to the high school and the early childhood (EC) classes from the Frank White building to Century. (Courtesy of Park Rapids Area Schools, submitted May 4, 2021)
The Park Rapids School Board ended its meeting Monday, May 3 with a second work session about how to move forward with the district’s facility improvement project without a voter-approved bond.