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Education

  • Economics lesson turns into community outreach

    The fourth-grade teachers at Heritage Elementary School wanted to put together a program to teach their students about economics.

    So teachers Sarah Beth Gomelsky, Kristen Hart and Devon Scrogham put together a unit where the students purchase raw materials, create an item and then sell those items on the “open market” at school.

    The students created bracelets and necklaces out of yarn and beads out of beeswax, and sold them to the student body for one week before school.

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  • Shelby County School Board: District will say farewell to Hinkle

    The Shelby County Board of Education will celebrate one of its own at Thursday’s 7 p.m. meeting at the board office, 1155 Main Street, the board’s final meeting of the 2012 calendar year.

    Superintendent James Neihof and former superintendents Leon Mooneyhan and Elaine Farris will recognize board member Sam Hinkle for his 12 years of service on the board. Hinkle lost his seat representing District 2 to Karen Sams in the November election.

    And that won’t be the only celebrating at the board meeting.

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  • Teachers want to send deaf student on DC trip

    Since West Middle teacher Kelland Garland started the Presidential Leadership Program in 2009, he has been on the lookout for students to invite into the program.

    Although some cannot attend because of conflicting schedules, Garland doesn’t let that stop him from inviting those students on the group’s trip to Washington D.C., during spring break.

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  • Southside, other low-scoring schools working to improve

    About one month removed from the state’s announced scores in the first year of Kentucky new assessment system, districts and individual schools are beginning to understand their scores more clearly.

    Shelby County’s overall district score was a little better than the middle of the pack statewide, falling in the 56th percentile and four schools earned proficient classifications, ranking in the 70th percentile or above in the state.

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  • Shelby County School Board: SCPS gets clean audit

    Shelby County Public Schools received another nearly perfect audit, earning the best opinion possible from the independent auditors at Mather & Company, CPA.

    “There were no significant deficiencies in the accounting practices,” Brandon Hardy told the board. “There are three different opinions we can offer, and Shelby County earned an unqualified opinion. That may not sound like the best, but it is. It is a clean audit.”

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  • Northside Early Childhood Center: Residents skip meeting but will hear noise

    Shelby County Public Schools invited the public on Thursday to attend an informational meeting on the development and plan for the new Northside Early Childhood Center, which will be built on the site of the old Northside Elementary School at 821 College St. in Shelbyville.

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  • Shelby County Public Schools: Southside update, audit to be reviewed

    With the Northside Early Childhood Center now under way, the Shelby County School Board will continue to move forward with plans for the new Southside Elementary.

    At its meeting on Oct. 25, the board approved the plans to be sent to the Kentucky Department of Education and, when accepted, for the bidding process to begin. The bids were originally scheduled to be opened on Nov. 29.

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  • Neihof on test scores: ‘We are challenged’

    The Next-Generation Learners, the first component of the state’s new educational accountability system shows that the state, by its own measures, Needs Improvement.

    Begun for the 2011-12 school year, the evaluation combines standardized and end-of-year test results in a complex formula for evaluating each school in the state, and eventually it will include accountability measures for teachers and administration, as well.

    Results for Shelby County Public Schools show much the same as the state’s: improvement is still needed.

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  • Contractor sues SCPS about settling issue

    Shelby County Public Schools has been named in a lawsuit filed by T+C Contracting, a Louisville-based construction firm, for withholding payment for work done on Collins High School.

    The suit is based on a construction problem that occurred in the summer of 2009 when the floor in the east hallway of the school settled 3 inches, after the completion of the school.

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  • Shelby County School Board: MAP results are mostly up

    The fall MAP testing scores for Shelby County Public Schools showed big improvements at nearly every level when compared to last fall’s test scores and those from the past several years – and fell way short when compared to last spring.

    Those somewhat conflicting findings from the Measures of Academic Progress test were discussed at Thursday night’s meeting of the Shelby County School Board.

    Those tests, which are administered three times each year, showed:

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