Part of a months-long program of tours, the goal was to show educators what opportunities are available in manufacturing so they can better inform students of their options after high school. Read the full story
Rogers was at Fruithurst Elementary to tour the school and to listen to a presentation by Principal Christy Hiett about getting county residents in Muscadine and Fruithurst hooked up to municipal water instead of using well water. Read the full story
The Calhoun County school board on Wednesday approved the final draft of a job description members will use to find a new superintendent to replace Joe Dyar by Jan. 1, including a salary range of $125,000 to $160,000. Read the full story
Wednesday marks six months since the tornado, and for many in Jacksonville, life is still in flux. Some JSU students affected by the tornado have had a slow recovery, with several just recently returning to some semblance of normalcy. Read the full story
Rogers was at Fruithurst Elementary to tour the school and to listen to a presentation by Principal Christy Hiett about getting county residents in Muscadine and Fruithurst hooked up to municipal water instead of using well water.
The Calhoun County school board on Wednesday approved the final draft of a job description members will use to find a new superintendent to replace Joe Dyar by Jan. 1, including a salary range of $125,000 to $160,000.
Wednesday marks six months since the tornado, and for many in Jacksonville, life is still in flux. Some JSU students affected by the tornado have had a slow recovery, with several just recently returning to some semblance of normalcy.
A delayed audit from Anniston City Schools could affect the city of Anniston’s bond rating and applications for federal grants, the City Council learned Tuesday.
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States with lower obesity rates tend to have more policies in schools that ensure students get adequate physical activity and healthy food each day, said John Auerbach, president and CEO of Trust for America’s Health, a Washington D.C.-based nonprofit.
Alabama Association of School Boards director Sally Smith and other officials from the AASB gave a short seminar to school administrators from Calhoun and nearby counties as a refresher on religious expression in schools. It’s one of a series of such meetings the group has held across the state this year.
According to the latest numbers from JSU, 8,479 students enrolled for the current fall semester, just a 1 percent drop year-over-year. The minor decrease is a relief for some JSU administrators, who’d worried the destruction would cause a mass exodus of students and the tuition that supports the bulk of the campus’ annual budget.
Anniston’s school board on Thursday approved a budget of more than $22 million, reflecting significant changes from the document presented at the board’s first budget meeting a week ago.
Jacksonville State University’s forensics lab expects to expand the crime scene investigation training it offers to area police through a recent $100,000 state grant.
“The greatest danger to any collection is putting it on public display,” Anniston museum director Alan Robison said. “Ideally, to preserve something, you’d keep it in a controlled environment. When you put it on display, you open yourself to what the public can do.”
A new central office is needed as legal negotiations wrap up for the school system to leave its current headquarters at the former Kitty Stone Elementary, owned by Jacksonville State University.
The Calhoun County school system’s $94 million budget for the 2019 fiscal year changes little from last year, and the district’s reserves are triple that of state requirements, the school board learned Friday.
Anniston City Schools officials expect the district’s general fund to end the upcoming fiscal year $1,043,228 in the red. But that’s a significant improvement from the previous year, which ended with a $1.33 million deficit.
The JSU nursing department opened the former hospital to the community for the first time on Thursday afternoon. While there, visitors were given tours of the new training rooms that take advantage of the hospital’s real-world facilities and extra space.
Images during a tour of the JSU Nursing Department's new classrooms at the old RMC Hospital in Jacksonville.
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The council did not vote on the matter, but each of the members agreed with the requirement in a work session as they discussed the city’s budget and their concerns about the school system’s financial leadership.
Eighty students are in the first year of Calhoun County’s new virtual school, which allows students to take classes online with help from teachers in a classroom in Jacksonville.
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“It’s sad to see babies in this condition, but I’m trying to give back,” a woman named Wonder Osborne said as she fed a tiny infant from a bottle. “My heart goes out to these children.” Osborne is one of a group of volunteers who assist specifically in the Anniston hospital’s program to help babies born with opioid withdrawals.
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HEFLIN — Cleburne County Elementary was one of fifty schools in the state to receive an unexpected $20,000 last week, money allotted by the Alabama Legislature to recognize schools showing the most improvement in third-grade reading results.
School Principal Adam Dasinger said the playground had been made possible thanks to volunteers and a grant from the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education. That department contains the office of school readiness, which set the specifications under which the playground had to be built.
