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The Burlington School District plans to put about $1 million in Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief funding toward the creation of new, likely temporary positions geared toward boosting post-pandemic academic recovery.
Curriculum Director Cory Johnson told the Burlington School Board on Monday the most senior members of the district s human resources, policy and curricular committees met last week to discuss the district s $4.73 million in ESSER funds made available through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act and what academic recovery services that money could be spent on.
The joint committee recommended putting money toward expanding summer school options at all building levels, creating interventionist positions at each elementary, intermediate and middle school building, and creating additional at-risk or alternative support teaching positions at the high school.
West Burlington class caps to remain unchanged
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WEST BURLINGTON The West Burlington School Board on Monday voted against Superintendent Lisa Beames recommendation to increase class size goal by one student per section for the next school year.
Class sizes go before the board each year for consideration. Last year, faced with some grades being at or exceeding the class cap, which would have prevented open enrollment in those grades from the 2020-21 school year, the board voted unanimously in favor of Beames recommendation for the same increase. That decision was not well received by many families in the district, board vice president Bruce Thuleen recalled of the community s reaction.
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The president of the Black Leadership Council on Monday called on the Burlington City Council to sever ties with a local bank over a racist Facebook post made in November by one of the bank s vice presidents.
Addressing city council during its regular meeting, the Rev. Rob Brown, pastor of the Hope Temple Christian Church and president of the 16-member council that formed about two months ago in the hopes of making Burlington a better community for their children, expressed his frustration over the city s continued business with Farmers & Merchants Bank & Trust after one of the bank s vice presidents, Lisa Walsh, called Vice President-elect Kamala Harris a minority slut in a Facebook post in early November.