Monday, February 4, 2013
The Parkway School District held the final in a series of four public presentations and feedback-gathering sessions and will vote on a proposal to cut $3-4 million from the 2013-14 budget this week.
With the last of its public budget meetings conducted last week, Parkway School District officials said they are ready to bring a proposal to cut $3.3-4.1 million over the next two years before the school board for a vote this week. The meeting at Parkway Central High School was the final in a series of four presentations at various district high schools to present information on the cuts and gather input from residents on the plan. School Board President Beth Feldman said the feedback at the meetings has not produced any broad themes or major criticisms, so herself and her fellow board members will likely vote on the package as it has been presented at their meeting Wednesday. “I think the issues that have come up seem to be issues that …
Thursday, January 10, 2013
The cuts would begin in the 2013-2014 school year and come in the form of approximately 40 jobs through attrition.
The Parkway School Board is reviewing a proposal to cut approximately $4 million from the district's budget over the next two years, beginning with the 2013-2014 school school year. The district has said it needs to cut another $2-4 million, or approximately one to two percent of the district's overall operating budget, to restore its fund balance and prevent borrowing from reserves. "The revenues didn't come in where we thought they'd come in last year," Parkway's CFO Mark Stockwell explained. Last February, the board voted to cut up to $9.63 million over two years and ended up cutting just under $8 million from the 2012-2013 budget. The additional $4 million now being proposed would bring the total budget cuts to between $11 and $12 …
Thursday, April 19, 2012
These are the personnel from the Ladue School District who are retiring/leaving.
These are the administrators, certified teachers and other personnel who are either retiring, or leaving the Ladue School District at the end of this school year. Administrators: Dr. Connie Brawley, Principal, Spoede Elementary School; Mary Jo Corcoran, Director of Parent Education, Ladue Early Childhood Center; Dr. Cathy Richter, Principal, Ladue Middle School. Certified Staff: Merri Abels, FACS Teacher, LHWHS; Jan Caimi, Fourth Grade, Spoede Elementary School; Jeff Cross, Counselor, LHWHS; Maureen Guffy, Part-time Librarian and Secretary, LHWHS; Gary Prosch, Science Teacher, Ladue Middle School; Carl Tenpas, Chemistry Teacher, LHWHS. Classified Staff: Christine Cuba, Secretary, LHWHS; Barb Greteman, Secretary, LHWHS; Sarah Koch, Athletic…
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
District projections anticipate most of the loss of teaching positions will come through regular attrition.
The Pattonville School Board approved 2012-2013 Student and Staffing Projections on Tuesday night and information provided by the school district indicates it will reduce positions through attrition. Pattonville plans to hire three elementary classroom teachers, but reduce middle school and high school teaching staffs. The district expects to reduce staff at Pattonville Heights by 2.5 and staff at Holman by 1.5. Pattonville High School will have the largest reduction in staff. The district expects to reduce high school staff by 8.67 staff members. Pattonville has 25 teachers who will retire at the end of the 2011-12 school year according to the district’s projections. Twenty-eight teachers were hired on one-year contracts. Typically …
Thursday, May 26, 2011
This week's selection from the week in comments includes ideas for a new spot for wedding photos, griping about school district salaries and the joys of grandparenthood.
The week in comments brought a nice diversion from some of the serious stories we've dealt with and a chance to talk about lighter fare—including fairs. And eating cicadas. And cake. Nibble on some of these morsels, and if you're inclined to share your thoughts, click the links and chime in. We're all ears. This pretty much sums up how we feel, too To Shoot Or Not in Subdivisions? "I would have a hard time living next to a hunting area because of the potential for accidents to occur." — Layla Azmi Goushey, Eureka-Wildwood Patch Let them eat and eat and eat cake Taking a Trip to Grandma's House "My parents are certainly not the same people I grew up with. For example, my daughter is still under the impression that I must have had cake …
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City of Creve Coeur
300 N New Ballas Rd, Creve Coeur, MO
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
District's merit pay system for teachers is being watered down, some board members say.
Possible changes in how Ladue School district instructors are evaluated for teaching performance may hasten the demise of the district's merit pay system, according to one Board of Education member. "It seems we are making it more and more difficult to give merit raises," said board director Ken Smith. "I think we are putting the nail in the coffin of the merit pay system." Smith was reacting to a report submitted to the school board during its May 9 regular meeting. The report, developed by the appointed teacher evaluation committee, incorporates recommended changes in the district's teacher evaluation system. "Our goal was to take existing teacher evaluation tools and make them work better," said Judy Sclair, a committee member and …
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Ladue Middle School
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Spoede School
425 N Spoede Rd, Saint Louis, MO
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Ladue Horton Watkins High School
1201 S Warson Rd, Saint Louis, MO
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
The Parkway school board approved several calendar changes.
Parkway students will have Good Friday off next school year. The Parkway Board of Education approved several minor changes to the 2011-2012 calendar at their Wednesday meeting, including closing school on April 6, 2012. District spokesman Paul Tandy, who was on the calendar committee, said closing school on the Friday before Easter makes sense. In the past three years, Parkway schools have seen a drop in attendance on that day. Normally, the district has about a 95 percent attendance rate on any given day, Tandy said. That’s dropped to 92 or 90 percent on Good Friday. This year, about 800 students were absent. Teachers also often take the day off, Tandy said. This year, 190 substitute teachers were requested on Good Friday, costing the …
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Parkway School District Administrative Center
455 N Woods Mill Rd, Chesterfield, MO
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Friday, April 15, 2011
Despite concerns expressed among some Parkway parents and teachers, the district says it will cut resources other than personnel.
As the 2010-2011 school year nears its end, some teachers in the Parkway School District have expressed concern over whether their contracts will be renewed, given the current state of the economy. But a spokeswoman for the Parkway district said these teachers need not worry. “We’ve strived to retain our current teaching staff. Where we have made budget cuts, we’ve done so in areas other than personnel,” Cathy Kelly, district spokeswoman, said. “We have made no layoffs of teachers anywhere in the district this year, and right now, we have no plans for personnel cuts in the future.” Pierremont Elementary School Principal Kathy Cain tells Patch the district is actually hiring teachers. Cain said 13 elementary positions were just posted. "If …
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Parkway North High School
12860 Fee Fee Rd, Saint Louis, MO
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Parkway School District Administrative Center
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Friday, April 1, 2011
Police are investigating a teacher at the POSITIVE School, part of Pattonville High School, for video taping female students in classrooms and hallways without their consent.
Update, 4:09 p.m.: Patch just completed a sit-down interview with Pattonville Superintendent Michael Fulton. Fulton said Johnson's alleged activity came to the district's attention earlier this week through a staff member who "made us aware of some irregular activity and during the course of following up on that concern through the investigative process we became aware of the recordings.” Fulton would not identify the specific ages of the students who may have been recorded, citing confidentiality rules, but said the impacted students and their families were notified of what happened before the district put out a statement to the entire school community Friday. “We hold a very high standard for professionalism for all staff members and …
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The superintendent of schools issued an apology for the way teachers who were being terminated or reassigned were notified.
Despite an apology from the district superintendent and a barrage of criticism from parents and students alike, the Ladue School Board has approved a package of budget cuts that trims the equivalent of 28 teaching positions from district classrooms. Across the district, eight employees, including six teachers, will not be re-hired for next school year. An additional 40 employees will retire or resign; others will be reassigned, and yet others will see a reduction in the number of hours they work, according to district documents. In total, the district plans to slash about 45 positions, or ten percent, from its organizational total of 476 full-time positions. “Every employee in the district will be affected in some way,” said Superintendent…
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Ladue Horton Watkins High School
1201 S Warson Rd, Saint Louis, MO
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Danny Wait
3:00 am on Friday, April 15, 2011
it got chnged to may 5th im a student of his and if you guys knew him how the kids in poz did you wouldnt think of him he was good guy im not sayin what he did wasnt wrong it was and i agree 100% but he was always their for us if we needed someone he would help and i was gunna drop out llast year and if not for him i would of. if it was someone close to you, yo would try to help them out to more ›