During the summer before this school year began, MSD of Washington Township Transportation Department sent correspondence to families informing them they would no longer send postcards with bus information and parents needed to access their children’s bus number, pickup/drop off location, and time online in Skyward Family Access. Unfortunately, parents of elementary and middle school…
This week, Jan 22-28, 2017, is National School Choice Week. When parents send their children off to school each day they hope the school is the best fit, a happy, safe and academically appropriate environment. When children fail to be successful or school becomes a place they dread attending, parents wonder what their options are….
The U.S. Secretary of Education confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos took place yesterday. Her nomination by President-elect Trump is controversial because of her lack of education experience. When former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman introduced Mrs. Devos he said, “I know that some people are questioning her qualifications to be Secretary of Education and too many…
Every evening, we ask our boys to tell us something interesting they learned at school. On Friday, one of our sons shared he learned about a great man named Martin Luther King, Jr. When I inquired what he had specifically learned, my five-year-old son replied, “He wrote a long speech. He told people that black…
When a new year begins many times we make resolutions or goals of what we can do better, but we should also acknowledge what went well. Here are six positive educational spotlights from Indiana in 2016. Just Tray No A group of Sidener Academy students wanted their school district IPS to make more environmentally friendly…