Schools

If New Richmond Superintendent Jeff Moberg was to make a New Year’s resolution, one of the top things he would set forth to do this year would be to communicate to the community how important literacy is to succeed in school and life as a whole. In an effort to increase the...

If St. Croix Central High Schools students play their cards right this year, they could go home every day without any homework, and student athletes won't fall behind in any of their late-day classes due to leaving early for competition. New to the school schedule this year is a ninth-period...

A state Assembly committee is scheduled to vote tomorrow on a bill aimed at broadening sex education in Wisconsin schools. They're not required to offer sex-ed but if they do, they'd have to provide information about both abstinence and contraceptives in an age-appropriate manner....

Gov. Jim Doyle says he has enough legislative support to hand control of the Milwaukee schools over to the mayor. But leaders in his own party are saying not so fast. Assembly Democratic Finance co-chairman Mark Pocan says he can't see how a school district run by City Hall would...

All Wisconsin schools would have to create policies against bullying, under a bill that's up for a vote today in the state Senate. The bill also would require schools to report all bullying incidents to the state government. And the Department of Public Instruction would help...

Wisconsin schools are considering their options under a new law which that lets them exceed their revenue limits to make energy-efficient improvements. It was quietly approved this year as part of the massive state budget. And already, Whitehall has taken advantage of it, by approving...

A new statewide curriculum will be announced today to stop Wisconsin school kids from bullying each other. Sue Klang, the widow of murdered high school principal John Klang, will join state Superintendent Tony Evers and a coalition of school groups at a news conference today. There's...

There's a new effort to expand the number of places in Wisconsin where you can openly carry a gun. A group called Operation CarryLand has an online petition urging the Legislature to repeal the law against open weapons near schools. Right now, it's a felony to openly carry a weapon...

To the Editor: Unbelievable! When is enough, enough! I am referring to Brad Nemec begging for more money for the Somerset soccer fields. The school is getting 54 percent of our tax dollars already. In addition they have begged another $15,000 from Somerset Township and God only knows...

New Richmond school officials believe they need to start catering to a different type of learner. A charter school focusing on math, science, engineering and technology might be the answer. The state is in the process of changing the regulations in dealing with charter schools,...

To the Editor: Recently we, like many other parents, received a letter from the New Richmond School District indicating that our child was measured and weighed at the beginning of the school year as part of a health assessment. With this data a BMI (Body Mass Index) was calculated...