A view from The Other Side
The superintendent of Hamilton Southeastern Schools, Dr. Bourff has meetings throughout the year with parents that representative from each school and represent each of the school board members. Most of these parents are generally members of the school PTOs, so…
The following are the questions that have been posted the the HSE 2020 School Board Candidates group on Facebook as of October 10th, 2020. The answers can be found on that Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HSE2020BoardElections Note that the posters of…
The Indiana state school dashboard for Covid tracking is going live today, September 30th. While it will be live, it is still a work in process. The state expects the data to be refined and cleaned up. The state is…
At the September 23, 2020 Update from Governor Holcomb, Dr. Box presented a first look of the history data (snapshot in time) of the new State School Dashboard that is being built. This is not yet released on the state…
Hamilton Southeastern Schools released the following information today after a morning school board working session that voted 4-3 to switch to 100% in-person classes for pre-K to fourth grades with an option for kids to remain virtual. Virtual kids will…
Dr. Box did an update at today’s governor’s briefing by Governor Eric Holcomb. She commented that children make up a steady increase make a steadily increasing percentage. Dr. Box was clear in stating that peer-to-peer transmission is increasing in teens…
In today’s press briefing by Governor Holcomb and Dr. Box, an update was given on the Indiana School Dashboard information that is being created. Progress is being made on school dashboard, which is expected to provide information on Covid cases…
When someone says, “We should pay new teachers whatever it takes to get them into our district,” I don’t disagree; however, that statement is not so simple. My knowledge is limited on this topic, but I can share what I…
Today, September 1st, Fishers, Indiana adjusted their Covid Risk Ranking to Yellow, improved over Orange. This includes a number of changes including the ability for in-person school at all grades from pre-k to twelfth, provided cohorting can be maintained. The…
Learn about an upcoming event that will be answering questions! One of my plans over the coming weeks was to write a few articles based on training and information I had received from the Indiana School Board Association (ISBA) about…