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Montgomery educator denounces firings and COVID-19 case suppression as Alabama abandons pandemic health and relief measures The school year draws to a close on unsteady footing at Montgomery Public Schools (MPS) in Alabama. Over the past year, courageous teachers protested the premature, unsafe reopening of school buildings, beginning in October, with no aid from the local Alabama Education Association (AEA). Between November 2020 and January 2021, eight MPS educators died from COVID-19, forcing the school board and superintendent to temporarily concede to fully remote teaching and learning. ...

Bellingrath Middle will receive $1.5 million and Ivy Classical will receive $1 million to open as charter schools.

WHYY By Ednalieze Figueroa, 5, who attends Wiggins School in Camden, protests the closure of her school on Fabruary 6, 2021 with an assist from activist Victoria Pellot. (April Saul for WHYY) Camden school officials have announced the closure in the fall of three of four schools District Superintendent Katrina McCombs planned to shutter because of budgetary concerns. Set to close are Harry C. Sharp Elementary School, Cramer Elementary School, and Ulysses Wiggins School. New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy and Acting Commissioner of Education Angelica Allen-McMillan vowed to make the necessary repair...

Kirby Hired As New OHS Principal Jeff Kirby (submitted photo) According to an Oskaloosa School Board Announcement, Mr. Jeff Kirby has been hired as the new OHS Principal. “The Oskaloosa Community School District is excited to announce that Mr. Jeff Kirby has been hired to serve as the next Oskaloosa High School Principal. Mr. Kirby will begin his duties as OHS principal on July 1, 2021.” “We had a large pool of high-quality candidates to choose from and Mr. Kirby’s qualifications, experiences, and personality brought him to the top of the selection process. Parents, teachers, students...

pcrossley@sungazette.com JERSEY SHORE — Results of a recent building conditions survey of the six buildings in the Jersey Shore Area School District revealed that the district would need to come up with over $50.5 million to bring those buildings up to today’s codes and infrastructure standards. “The title of it is a building condition survey and that’s exactly what it is,” said school board member Mary Thomas who chaired the meeting. “They took a survey of all of our buildings and they put together information for us on things that needed to be worked on. Not necessarily immedia...