Augusta School District

• Augusta Debate Turns to a Stark Choice ; the Governor's Audacious School District Consolidation Plan Pits Local Control Against Lower Taxes.

One of the trickiest things about editorial writing is finding that line between high-minded principle and naivete. As editorial writers, it's our job sometimes to say how we think things should be even if the politics of the moment don't allow for them. If you reach for the impossible, however, you get dismissed as a dreamer.

• Portland Press Herald
• January 22, 2007

• First Step for Better Schools: Vote for Alex Howard On Tuesday District 3 School Board Candidate Understands Augusta's Success Depends On Its Education System

While there are various reasons folks pull up stakes and move, it's quite often the schools. Nothing is more important to parents than their children's education. Consider the state of Augusta public schools: There are 11 schools in all of Georgia that have been on the federal "needs improvement" list all seven years of the No Child Left Behind era. Three of those 11 schools, 27 percent, are right here in Augusta: Glenn Hills, Morgan Road and Tubman middle schools.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• September 19, 2006

• Hall, Lougee Among 5 Named Unsung Heroines Maine Women Honored by Mpa

AUGUSTA Joanna Hall, a teacher and coach at Rockland District High School, and Susan Lougee, a coach and athletic trainer at Presque Isle High School, were among five recipients of Unsung Heroines in Maine Sports awards presented during the Mentoring Women in Sports XIII conference hosted this week by the Maine Principals Association. Other recipients were Gwen Bacon, co-principal of Messalonskee High School in Oakland; Anita Murphy, retired teacher and girls tennis coach at Lewiston High School; and Rebecca Hefty, a teacher and track coach at Edward Little High School in Auburn.

• Bangor Daily News
• March 28, 2011

• Education; Poverty and Schooling: A Bad Pairing

One of every 10 Wisconsin schoolchildren lives in families that are officially poor, as of 2003, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. Those children aren't evenly spread out, of course. On one extreme, three of every 10 children age 5 to 17 in Eau Claire County's Augusta School District know poverty firsthand. On the other extreme, none in Waukesha County's Richmond School District qualify as poor. The Richmond third-graders topped the chart on a state reading test this year. All of them wound up with a score of proficient or advanced. In contrast, the Augusta third-graders ranked within the lower half of school districts on that chart. A coincidence?

• The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
• December 11, 2005

• Finding Economies of Scale in a One-Room Schoolhouse

Everybody thinks they know what's best for the other guy. As bureaucrats and bean counters in Augusta assure us there are big savings in school district consolidation, we on Matinicus sit out here in the teeth of the gale and speculate on what this "simplification" means for us.Two-square-mile Matinicus Island lies roughly 23 miles southeast of Rockland. This community of fewer than 100 people is not connected, physically or legally, with any other town. There is no cable, no "daily boat," and no possibility to commute. We run our own power company and school district, which consists of one-room for kindergarten through eighth-grade in one school. The only full-time work is lobstering, unless you are the one - and only - schoolteacher.

• Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me.
• January 14, 2007

• Year's Biggest Stories Get Retold, Updated Ever Wonder What Became of the People, Places, Disputes and Investigations Behind Some of 2005's Top Headlines

The investigation into the theft of an office safe from the Veracruz Mexican Restaurant on Stevens Creek Road took an extraordinary turn when Richmond County sheriff's investigators announced they had recovered $400,000 in cash from five suspects arrested in the crime. The amount was five times what restaurant owner Emilio Sanchez initially told police was inside the safe when it was stolen Dec. 26, 2004, prompting the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration to join the investigation. Authorities then recovered $594,000 in cash during a search warrant executed Jan. 3 at one of Mr. Sanchez's residences. WHATever happened to ... the federal investigation? DEA Special Agent Patrick Clayton said it's ongoing, but he would not comment further. Mr. Sanchez has not been charged with an...

...the convent's threats to sue the school district? In what Sister Pemberton described as a...

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• January 05, 2006

• For Your Information

David Hudson represents the media. Pete Fletcher represents the Richmond County school district. And the two esteemed attorneys are longtime friends.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• September 24, 2009

• Across the Region

School district hit with Confederate flag suit FLORENCE S.C. - The family of a high school sophomore is suing school officials over whether the girl can wear clothing with images of the Confederate flag.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• April 04, 2006

• School Officials Respond to Lawsuit

Columbia County school officials filed a response in Augusta's U.S. District Court on Tuesday to a lawsuit that claims the school board discriminated against union bus drivers. The response refutes all claims of discrimination levied against the school system in the lawsuit, which was filed Dec. 13, said school board attorney Bill Fleming.

• Augusta Chronicle, The
• January 05, 2006

• Panel Backs School Consolidations

AUGUSTA - School units that consolidate into a regional district or service center should receive more state money in grants, subsidies and construction debt reimbursement, according to recommendations approved Friday by a governor's advisory committee. The task force, composed of seven educational and financial experts, was charged last March by Gov. John Baldacci with identifying incentives to increase cost efficiency and equity in education.

• Bangor Daily News
• January 10, 2004