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Send your child to school with these helpful backpack tips

Published by kjpasson on Wed, 08/07/2024 - 8:06am

Backpacks are a practical and useful way to get textbooks and supplies to and from school. When used properly, they should ease your child’s load, not make it worse.

“Improper backpack usage among children can lead to neck pain, headaches, back pain and hip pain,” said Megan Stankowski, physical therapist with Aspirus Health. “Preventing these injuries may require parents to check in, observe and gently remind their kids to make some adjustments to how they use their backpacks.”

Amish school to be built near Cecil

Published by admin on Mon, 07/22/2024 - 2:00pm

Shawano County supervisors are expected to approve a zoning request July 24 that would allow for the construction of a school for the Amish community near Cecil.

Daniel Mast, acting as an agent for property owners Henry Stutzman and Allen Lambright, requested a zone change on a 2.09-acre parcel on Old Road 22 at state Highway 22 in the Town of Washington.

Currently, the site is vacant agricultural crop land.

“The other school got full, and we decided we need another one,” Mast told the Shawano County Planning, Development and Zoning (PDZ) Committee on July 3.

DPI releases figures on 2023-24 general school aids

Published by admin on Sun, 10/15/2023 - 7:20pm

The Shawano Community School District will lose more than $2 million in Wisconsin general school aids in 2023-24 while the Pulaski Community School District will gain nearly as much.

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction posted state general school aids that school districts will receive during the current school year.

Walking to school more than one day

Published by admin on Thu, 10/05/2023 - 12:39pm

Schools all across northeast Wisconsin touted the importance of exercise and physical fitness with Walk to School Day on Oct. 4, but Bonduel Elementary School is looking for a way to encourage the practice beyond the one day each year.

Shepherd’s Watch opens doors for students

Published by admin on Tue, 09/12/2023 - 11:37am

The day after Labor Day was truly the first day of school at Shepherd’s Watch Christian Academy in Mattoon. The school opened its doors to 17 students from 4-year-old kindergarten through fourth grade for the very first time.

“The kids were very excited,” said administrator and teacher Gerry Schmidt. “It was a different atmosphere. There’s more one-on-one instruction, and that helped make things easier and more refreshing.”

Like any other first day – and the first week, for that matter – everyone had to settle in and find their comfort zone.

Shawano School Board plans full reopening in January

Published by admin on Mon, 12/07/2020 - 9:32pm

The Shawano School Board voted on Dec. 7 to bring all of its schools back into session five days a week in mid-January, giving the school district over a month to put safety measures in place to prevent the risk of spreading coronavirus.

Wisconsin’s PBS stations offer at-home learning broadcasts for fall semester

Published by admin on Thu, 09/03/2020 - 10:17am

PBS Wisconsin is committed to ensuring that kids across Wisconsin have equitable access to high-quality educational media, all year long.

As schools in Wisconsin return to learning in an array of virtual and in-person learning experiences due to local transmission rates of COVID-19, PBS Wisconsin in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction will support at-home learning for students of all ages by broadcasting weekday television schedules of programming with digital resources that connect to Wisconsin’s state academic standards.

School boards to review reopening plans

Published by admin on Mon, 07/13/2020 - 2:40pm

The Oconto Falls and Gillett school boards will be getting briefed this week on their administrators’ plans to open the 2020-21 school year under COVID safety guidelines.

“It is our goal to create a multi-faceted educational plan that effectively meets the learning needs of our students while providing the flexibility to modify operations as needed in response to changing levels of risk,” Oconto Falls Superintendent Dean Hess said in a July 1 letter to parents.

State GOP eyes property tax cut in 2020

Published by andynewsengin on Mon, 12/23/2019 - 10:43am

MADISON — Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are considering a property tax cut proposal to be introduced early in 2020, the state Senate leader said Dec. 20.

W-B construction timeline for referendum updates set

Published by admin on Tue, 09/03/2019 - 10:18am

WITTENBERG — Wittenberg-Birnamwood School District Superintendent Garrett Rogowski updated the school board about the construction timeline at the Aug. 26 board meeting.

To date, new entrances with security enhancements were completed this summer at each of the district’s three schools — Wittenberg Elementary-Middle School, Birnamwood Elementary-Middle School and Wittenberg-Birnamwood High School.