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Anderson School District One Board of Trustees approved personnel and heard preliminary budget information for the 2012-13 school year during their meeting Tuesday.
District One Teacher of the Year Kristen Hearn told the Board about an initiative she is coordinating along with other former District Teachers of the Year, to raise funds for a scholarship program for district one students who plan to go into teaching.
By David Meade
The Anderson School District One Board of Trustees approved funding for a sidewalk and road improvement project in the Wren School area and the 2012-13 school calender during their regular monthly meeting held Tuesday, Jan. 31.Anderson County Chief Engineer Judy Shelato presented information about the Wren Schools Safe Routes to School Project to the Board.
The Anderson School District One Board of Trustees will meet Tuesday, January 31, 2012 in the George Seaborn Boardroom at the District Office at 7:00 p.m. Preliminary Agenda includes Recognition of a Board Member, Superintendent’s Report, Financial Report, Instructional Report, Student Nutritional Report and Adoption of the County-Wide School Calendar for 2012-13. Personnel will also be discussed and/or voted on.
Greenville County Schools and the South Carolina School Boards Association are celebrating School Board Recognition Month during January. Greenville’s 12 School Board members, along with more than 630 board members throughout
The Anderson School District One Board of Trustees unanimously approved a one year contract for Superintendent Dr. Wayne Fowler during a meeting held Thursday night.
Fowler, 62, has served as Superintendent for the District since 2004.
By Stan Welch
State Representative Don Bowen is preparing to file proposed legislation that would abolish the Anderson County School Board, a move which Bowen says would save $700,000 a year.
Bowen spoke to The Journal recently as he was on his way to Columbia to read and review the bill. If it met his approval, he planned to propose it for the November pre-filing date.
The bill would abolish the school board, which Bowen says does very little except “ . . . essentially rubber stamp the budgets proposed by the five districts in the county. And they deal with truancy to some extent. I think the districts can deal with truancy, and either the county council or county delegation can assume their budgetary responsibilities. I would like to see the delegation do that, personally.”
