Star Journal Construction project begins at Rhinelander’s Crescent school Share:
Several Crescent Elementary Students don hard hats and pitched a few shovels of dirt to celebrate the addition of classrooms to their school. At far right is Crescent Principal Gayle Daniel.
SDR takes advantage of federal funds to expand
By Eileen Persike
Editor
A “dream come true” is how School District of Rhinelander (SDR) principal Gayle Daniel described the construction project underway at Crescent Elementary.
“It’s going to be fantastic,” Daniel said. “All the kids will be in great classrooms, we’ll have wonderful spaces for teachers, we’ll have a common space, which we currently don’t have and we’ll have an area dedicated for occupational and physical therapy.”
HUDSON â The Hudson School Board approved new COVID-19 mitigation strategies that will keep masks required until the end of this school year and make them optional starting with summer school.Â
The move to keep the mask requirement until June 7, after the last day of school and both proms, was approved 6-1, with new Board Member Kate Garza voting no.Â
In addition to the planned masking change, contact tracing will change immediately. Students who were close contacts with a positive case will not have to quarantine if all involved were wearing masks and the close contacts are not showing symptoms.Â
The initial recommendation from the administration had masking ending on Friday, June 4. Board Member Heather Logelin said that date raised concerns for her with the two proms being held, as one was before and one was after the end date.Â
Students at Milwaukee German Immersion School on MPS s first day returning to in-person learning.
Milwaukee Public Schools is starting to determine to how it will spend $731 million in federal stimulus aid over the next three years. It’s a big chunk of change to add to MPS’s $1.3 billion annual budget.
The MPS board is making decisions about some of the federal funding as part of its regular budgeting process for the upcoming school year.
The COVID relief funding is being distributed to schools in three waves. The first allocation, called ESSER I, was from the CARES Act, which Congress approved in the early months of the pandemic. MPS has been using the $41 million this school year for pandemic-related costs like computers for students and PPE.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) is calling for retired teachers to return as substitutes and encouraging folks who are considering a career change or interest in teaching to become an educator.
May 4, 2021
By Bill Osmulski
Wisconsin is facing many challenges, but for Gov. Tony Evers, there’s no question about what needs to be the top priority.
“We have to make sure that we’re making equity and inclusion the most important issue in state government,” Evers said during the Governor’s Advisory Council on Equity and Inclusion meeting on Feb. 19, 2021.
Gov. Evers didn’t come up with that idea on his own. It’s the same Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) agenda liberals everywhere are pushing. Some call this “being woke.”
Diversity and inclusion might sound good at first, but to liberals those words are only tools in first demonizing and then fundamentally transforming America and our way of life. They give a hint at their ultimate goal when bringing up equity.