Monday, May 21, 2012
Approximately 830 students in the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District will receive diplomas beginning on June 5. Three ceremonies are planned.
Editor’s Note: This is a press release from School District 191. Commencement ceremonies will take place in June in Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District 191 with approximately 830 students receiving diplomas at three locations. Commencement for 20 students in the BEST Transition program will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, in the Senior Campus Commons at Diamondhead Education Center, 200 West Burnsville Parkway. Burnsville Alternative High School will present diplomas to 100 students during a commencement ceremony at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, June 6, in the Mraz Center at Burnsville High School, 600 E. Highway 13. BAHS students also have the option to participate in the BHS commencement ceremony and 25 have chosen to do so. At Burnsville …
Mandates in the federal Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act will require schools to provide more specific categories of food and work toward price equity for all students' meals, resulting in a need for increased lunch prices.
Follow us on Twitter | Like us on Facebook | Get our newsletter |Write for Local Voices The District 196 School Board on Monday approved a 10-cent lunch price increase for elementary and high school students, as well as for adults, by a 6-0 vote. The increase brings lunch prices for 2012-13 to $2.20 for elementary, $2.35 for high school and $3.40 for adults. Middle school pricing will stay at $2.25. The price increase was necessary, district officials said, because of mandates from the federal Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 that focus on nutrition and something called price equity, an effort to have all students contributing the same amount of money to their school-provided meals. If the board had voted against the measure, the …
Saturday, May 19, 2012
The Metcalf Junior High School social studies teacher was honored at a district reception earlier this week.
Editor’s Note: This is a press release from School District 191. At a May 15 reception honoring teachers of the year from all Burnsville-Eagan Savage District 191 schools, Metcalf Junior High social studies teacher Sharon Shelerud was named the District 191 Teacher of the Year for 2012. A 30-year veteran of teaching in District 191, Shelerud has served in several leadership positions both within the district and in much broader situations. She was instrumental in developing the District 191 AP Human Geography course, has written lessons for the University of Minnesota Center for Austrian Studies, is chair of the Assessment Development Committee sponsored by the Minnesota Alliance for Geographic Education, has coached several very …
Friday, May 18, 2012
The Board of Education approves additional spending in Fiscal Year 2013.
Work continues on finalizing the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District’s budget for the 2012-13 school year. During its meeting Thursday night, the District 191 Board of Education voted to add nearly $1.4 million of spending to its revised Fiscal Year 2013 budget, which now sits at $109.4 million. The board action was the latest step in formulating the district’s budget for next school year, which is required by state law to be approved by June 30. Some of the approved spending increase is linked to the board’s decision to restore the traditional 172 academic-day calendar for next year, rather than to move ahead with a 155-day calendar that would have added 36 minutes to each school day and created several three- and four-day weekends …
Patch is the perfect place to announce your child's—or your own—graduation.
It's the time of year for milestones. Students across the country are donning mortarboards and walking across stages, earning their degrees and accepting diplomas, finishing one chapter of their lives and moving on to the next. So, let the community know about your graduate's accomplishments by posting a free graduation announcement on Burnsville Patch. All you need to do is fill out this form with a few details, whether you want to dote on your high schooler, acknowledge the bachelor's or master's degree of a local student who went on to college, or let us know your kindergartener will be moving on up in the world. Add photos (a now-and-then comparison with a baby photo is always fun!) and videos, and write as much as you'd like—sticking …
Monday, May 14, 2012
Today, Nicollet Junior High will host "The Jennie," a 5K in honor of late teacher Jennie Sandquist.
The public is invited to strap on their running shoes and hit the road for the the 2012 edition of "The Jennie," a 5k run at Nicollet Junior High. The run honors Jennie Sandquist, a former Nicollet student, teacher, and track coach who died of cancer in 2010. The Jennie will take place Monday, May 14, at 4 p.m. It begins at the Nicollet Junior High tennis courts. Registration is free and refreshments will be provided. T-shirts are available to purchase for $15.
Thursday, May 10, 2012
In the face of strong opposition from parents, the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School Board has set aside a cost-cutting plan that would have shaved 17 days off the 2012-2013 school year. There is some discussion of eliminating late-start days, however.
In light of resistance from parents and an unexpected windfall, the Burnsville-Eagan-Savage School District could put plans for a shorter school calendar out to pasture—at least for the immediate future. The abridged school calendar was just one of many cost-cutting measures considered by the Board of Education, which foresees stagnant revenue projections for the next two to three years, coupled with increases in operational costs for fuel, utilities and other basics. If these projections hold true, the district will have to slash $5 million from each annual budget for the next three years. Officials estimate that the plan would have saved about $776,000. If implemented, the district would have cut over two weeks from the 2012-2013 …
In this week's high school news segment: BHS' reporters learn the ins-and-outs of badminton, seniors dish about where they're going to college and two rogue dancers perform for a baffled audience at Target.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
On Saturday, Burnsville Senior High danced the night away at at the Great Hall in downtown St. Paul.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Edina's Jackie Roehl beat out nine other contestants, including Burnsville-Eagan-Savage teacher Joe Meyer.
Jackie Roehl has achieved something no other Edina Public Schools teacher can lay claim to: She has been crowned Minnesota's Teacher of the Year. Roehl beat out nine other finalists, including one of Burnsville's own—Eagle Ridge Junior High Teacher Joe Meyer. Roehl, who teaches 10th-grade English at Edina High School, was selected Sunday, May 6, as the 48th winner of the prestigious award by Education Minnesota. It was a first-ever Teacher of the Year designation for the typically award-rich district. "It is through spreading ideas about culturally responsive teaching in my classroom and with my colleagues that I feel I have made my greatest contribution to education," Roehl said in a statement. When Patch talked with Roehl after she had …
Clare Kennedy
8:26 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Many parents said they wanted to see cuts to the administration, though the board argued that the superintendent's office, et al, only made up 5 percent of the budget. more ›