Preparing for change: State school superintendent warns of potential cuts, accountability, school grading
With financial cuts looming in the state, Indiana’s top education official Tony Bennett stopped by The Evening News and The Tribune on Friday to talk about what’s to come with budget cuts, teacher licensure changes, grading schools based on performance and charter schools, among other topics.

Rock Creek enters the home stretch
Less than 24 hours after Rock Creek Christian Academy officials presented their full charter school proposal at Ball State University, Principal Sara Hauselman received an e-mail with the good news.

Indiana Tech exploring possibility of opening
Working adults looking to finish their college degrees may soon have another option in the area.

Stock market crash course: St. Mary’s students learn ups and downs of stock market through game
In a room filled with middle schoolers at St. Mary’s Catholic School quietly working together on computers, 12-year-old Graham Wood jumped up and screamed with excitement.

Final stretch for Rock Creek Christian Academy
It’s a mix of nerves and excitement for Sara Hauselman, principal of Rock Creek Christian Academy in Sellersburg.
Today, she is going to Ball State University in Muncie to make her final pitch for Rock Creek to open as a charter school in the fall of 2010.
“You’re always nervous with stuff like that,” Hauselman said. “You don’t ever know until you get that final word, but I’m very optimistic.”

Bringing college applications to the 21st century
High school students juggling jobs, homework, sports, clubs and more can take one thing off their to-do lists — mailing in transcripts for college admission.

GCCS to vaccinate against H1N1
Greater Clark County Schools will start vaccinating children against the H1N1, or swine flu, at two schools Thursday.

Department of Education looks to stop myths
Public hearing is Thursday in Scottsburg

Speaking for the future
Austyn Clark stood in front of his fifth-grade class at Floyds Knobs Elementary Thursday and performed a demonstration of his family secret to making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich without tearing the bread.

Fire forces evacuation of Parkwood
A minor electrical fire Tuesday morning at Parkwood Elementary School in Clarksville caused an evacuation and students to be moved to an alternate site.

Fire causes evacuation of Parkwood Elementary

NA-FC School Corp. waiting for cuts

The race to vaccinate
The H1N1, or swine flu, is affecting schools throughout the county, including one that had about 20 percent of its population out for days.

Something to type home about
As the one-to-one computer initiatives at Charlestown middle and high schools receive much attention, staff at Pleasant Ridge Elementary School are starting one as well.

Greater Clark looks to trim teachers
Greater Clark County Schools plans to reduce its teaching and assistant teaching staff by 45 positions next year.

Greater Clark County Schools program helps new teachers transition to district
Dehr is one of the approximately 30 new teachers at Greater Clark County Schools, according to Mariane Fisher, supervisor of instruction. To help those teachers deal with the transition from school to teaching or for those who are just new to the district, Fisher heads up a year-long New Teacher Induction Program for the district, where they talk about teaching strategies, problems they face and more.

Network allows Indiana parents to see child's test answers

Parent/teacher conferences in jeopardy
Changes at the state level are putting parent/teacher conferences in jeopardy for some school districts and leaving others looking for creative solutions.

NA-FC talks cuts
New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. board members showed shock on their faces and some gasped as they looked at their future via a long-term forecast of their general fund, which pays mostly for salaries.

Back to the table for teachers, school system at Greater Clark
Greater Clark County Schools’ teachers continue to work without a contract after they voted down the administration’s one-year offer last week.

WEST CLARK: Coaching the teachers
At West Clark Community Schools, they’re working to improve test scores, too.

Charlestown will help pay for laptops for middle-schoolers
The Charlestown City Council voted to help fund a program to give laptop computers to middle-schoolers Monday, to the tune of $84,000 over three years.

NA-FC Schools preparing to make budget cuts
Another year of flat-lined revenue while costs increase may cause the New Albany-Floyd Consolidated School Corp. to cut about $2 million from the 2010 general fund, which mostly is used to pay salaries.

Greater Clark board approves 1:1 funding for middle-schoolers
In a 5-2 vote Tuesday night, the Greater Clark County Schools board voted to implement the one-to-one computer initiative at Charlestown Middle School.
However, the project will not go on as anticipated, which was to provide a laptop to each student in the school so that they could take them home if they paid for liability insurance.

READ IT: Transcript of President Obama's speech to school children

Pilot research program targets Floyd County

Indiana teachers union insurance fund files lawsuit

Greater Clark superintendent welcomes back teachers, challenges them to beat state average
Daeschner also discussed budget issues, saying the preliminary general fund budget is about $75.4 million, about $4.73 million more than the projected revenue. He said figuring in stimulus and rainy-day money still leaves about a $2.1 million deficit.

Ivy Tech in Sellersburg starts fall breaking records
Preliminary figures show the school is up 14.5 percent in enrollment when compared to last fall’s record breaking enrollment.

Greater Clark hosting back-to-school event Saturday

COOKING UP LESSONS: Breakfast teaches Grant Line students how to deal with the unexpected
After hearing about the project from another teacher, Heather Finn decided it would be a good idea to get her fourth/fifth grade split class, all accelerated learners, to cook as a way to learn math by measuring out ingredients, teamwork skills and more — such as what to do when the burners blow all the fuses in the classroom.

Salaries for new COO, CFO, other positions released by Greater Clark Schools
The cost of recent hires and promotions at Greater Clark County Schools totals nearly $500,000, according to documents attained via an open-records request by The Evening News.

Vandals strike at Jeffersonville High School
A worker arrived just after 7 a.m. Saturday to find spray paint on the brick wall outside the cafeteria area and throughout the hallways and in classrooms at JHS, according to a police report.

State changes to cost NA-FC School Corp. about $500,000
Some changes made by the state legislature may end up costing New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. about $500,000.

PHOTO: Back-to-school jam in Clark County

West Clark Community Schools faces traffic woes
Reed said the afternoon congestion on the buses may ease as practices start for various sports this fall.

New methods tried to teach women about safe fish by Purdue University experts
Purdue professor Charles Santerre (San-TEHR) says the goal is to keep babies healthy.

New teachers start off the year at New Albany-Floyd County

Mentor Mii Program to start at NA-FC schools
The first Mentor Mii Program training is from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday in the board room at the Education Support Center, 2813 Grant Line Road, New Albany. Breakfast and lunch will be served. To RSVP or for more information on the program, contact Jerome Costner at 812-542-2112 or jcostner@nafcs.k12.in.us.

Greater Clark County Schools: Stephen Daeschner brings his Jefferson County Public Schools deputy on as new COO
Another retiree and former Stephen Daeschner co-worker is coming to Greater Clark County Schools

PHOTO: Supply and demand in Floyd County

Geared up for another school year in West Clark Community Schools

New superintendent heads annual event for New Albany-Floyd County teachers
The official start of school is just around the corner for New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. and that means

LMPD acting major joins IU Southeast as chief of university police

Backpack angels helping kids get back to school in Southern Indiana
A program that just finished its fifth year in Louisville is getting ready to start in Southern Indiana.

Community Foundation of Southern Indiana announces 2009 Paul W. Ogle scholars
Thanks to a grant from the Paul W. Ogle Foundation Inc., the Community Foundation

Indiana University students put Shakespeare characters on trial
Indiana University students will hold mock murder trials this month based on

Hoosier Academies will run Indiana’s first virtual school
Hoosier Academies has been chosen to operate Indiana’s first virtual charter school

New Albany-Floyd County school board releases contract details
The three-year contract gives Hibbard $152,000 a year

A clothes call in Clark County

Clarksville school officials assess flood damage
Today, school officials plan to assess the magnitude of the damage.

INDIANA: Workers need more college money

Superintendent Bruce Hibbard to start work today as NA-FC School Corp. superintendent

Indiana summit will focus on high school dropouts

Rock Creek trying again for charter

Jeffersonville High School prepares to to welcome back students in midst of construction project

FINAL PUSH: FCHS prepares for students to come back amid construction
The $58 million building and renovation project at the school that started in 2008 will add about 80,000 more square feet to the building, bringing it to approximately 470,000 square feet, according to Bill Wiseheart, director of facilities for New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp.

Indiana University Southeast to give school supplies to children
The cost of school supplies can add up, especially for families living on a tight budget.

Indiana Superintendent of Education Tony Bennett proposes changes to teacher requirements
Bennett announced Wednesday his proposed changes

Locally filmed documentary on Southern Indiana high school theater to air
The show — called “Guys ‘N Divas: Battle of the High School Musicals” — promises

Day at the Museum in New Albany
During the event, participants of all ages experimented with such activities as

Greater Clark County Schools board names new CFO
In a rather short special session Tuesday evening

Larry Wilder to handle pending cases for Greater Clark County Schools
Questions about Wilder’s current and future involvement to board members were referred to board President Ernie Gilbert

He or she for New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp.?
The public will have to wait until Aug. 3 to hear whether it was Cathlin Gray or Bruce Hibbard

Panel to hear about tuition increases Tuesday

Indiana University expects smaller freshman class

Changing face of IUS
Not only does enrollment continue to climb, but with five on-campus lodges, the school can now house 400 students. And earlier this month, it was a announced that a new education and technology building will be added to the 177-acre campus — which will add 54,000 square feet of office and classroom space.

Program puts young adults to work in Indiana state parks

Indiana University Southeast names 2009 Chancellor’s Medallion recipients
The Chancellor’s Medallion is the highest honor presented by the chancellor of IUS

Ivy Tech Sellersburg students excel at national event
Ivy Tech is at it again.

Longtime Southern Indiana educator dies at 79
John F. “Jack” Seville Sr., a former administrator and associate superintendent with the New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp., died

Eight apply for Greater Clark County Schools job
The salary for an executive director for educational services “will be determined based

ONE YEAR LATER: Family of S. Ellen Jones student works to find legal solution
One year later, the family of Gabriel Ross is still dealing with the aftermath caused when the child’s then kindergarten teacher at S. Ellen Jones Elementary was heard on tape calling him names, such as pathetic.

Mark Kessans said only mistake Kristen Woodward made was not expelling the child
All children can learn, so Kristen Woodward didn’t give up on a child who was difficult in class.
Now, she’s paying the price for that decision.
That’s according to Mark Kessans, president of the teachers’ association at New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp.

New Albany-Floyd Central prepares to name superintendent
The second of the remaining two candidates vying for the superintendent post at New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. answered questions and talked to teachers, staff members and residents at two meetings Wednesday.

Indiana University Southeast to make more elbow room
There are a number of hurdles yet to go

Greater Clark County Schools board makes changes
In their first meeting with new Superintendent Stephen Daeschner

Dutch Vigar to lead New Albany athletics
New Albany High School’s sports are about to go Dutch

Reception held for first of two finalists for top New Albany-Floyd County seat

Purdue trustees approve tuition hike, new $500 fee

NA-FC to introduce two superintendent candidates to public
Cathlin Gray and Bruce Hibbard are the two remaining applicants out of 16. Seven of those were interviewed.
However, Neal Smith, school board president, was quick to say these are not “finalists” for the position.

Land swap still stuck in Clark County
In order to compel Greater Clark County Schools to move forward on a land-swap agreement

West Clark Community Schools Board: Work begins on Early Childhood Development Center
The West Clark Community Schools board heard an update on the project at its meeting Wednesday evening.

Former New Albany-Floyd County bus driver pleads guilty to felony for driving drunk
Sylvia Cooke, 63, will be sentenced Aug. 5 in Jackson County Circuit Court

Tuition likely to go up at Indiana campuses
Students at Indiana’s two largest college systems may soon know how much they have to pay for tuition next year

Democrats decry Indiana school funding formula

Wiseheart throws name in for Indiana Senate seat
“I’m so excited,” Wiseheart said, grinning.

Building education in Charlestown

Daeschner takes reins at Greater Clark County Schools

Jerri Quillman, first woman executive vice president at Floyd Memorial Hospital in New Albany, retires

Brooks recommends NA-FC school board keep all schools open this fall
After three years of research with the Resources for Results committee, New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. Superintendent Dennis Brooks fell short of saying whether or not any schools would be closed in the near future.
In his list of recommendations he made during his last school board meeting Monday night, he said not to close a school for the upcoming school year. However, the issue was left open for years beyond that.

Providence ladies bring ‘Steel Magnolias’ to life in Clark County
The all-female, student cast worked the entire month, putting the show together.

Jefferonsville camp allows students to explore their possibilities
The idea for the camp started in 1991

Seminar goes inside the minds of teen killers in Jeffersonville
The images were disturbing, the music vulgar and the stories shocking.

New Albany-Floyd County Schools board decides to have a committee investigate pros, cons of uniforms
Uniforms may become a reality as early as fall 2010 for some of New Albany-Floyd County Consolidated School Corp. schools.

Community Action of Southern Indiana program aimed at higher ed
The Education Development Account program provides $250,000 for 40 local families — $5,000 per family — to assist in paying for continuing education.

Summer lunch program gets cooking in Clark County

Interim principal named at New Albany High School
“I believe this is a very important year for New Albany High School,” Brooks told the board.

New Albany High School Hall of Fame elects new class
The Flocks, along with 10 others, have been elected by the Hall of Fame Committee and will be inducted at a special banquet Sept. 13 in the school cafeteria.

West Clark lays out plan for stimulus money
The West Clark Community Schools board decided Thursday night how to spend nearly $700,000 in stimulus funds after a 3-2 and 5-0 vote on the two separate proposals.