As we wrap up classes to end the 2011-2012 school year, I marvel at the progress across the district. It would be easy to list out all the programs, groups and organizations that have stepped up. It would be easy to point out all the great statistics. What I want to call attention to is […]
Artwork will be painted “Affton purple” “The Affton School District’s Early Childhood Education Center — which Board Vice President Doug Beck calls “the best thing this board has done for the district in years” — is taking shape, as the countdown to fall’s grand opening continues. Enrollment projections are firming up. The renovation of the […]
Tech upgrades on hold pending state formula answers “The Affton School District’s ambitious five-year plan to upgrade technology balances finely on the $2 million or so it receives from the state, which is currently tinkering with the funding formula for public education. As a result, the board of education has put together a preliminary, “worst-case […]
“The families whose children attend the soon-to-close St. George Early Childhood Center on Heege Road will gain a tuition break, should they continue to enroll them in the new Affton Early Childhood Education Center. In February, the Affton Board of Education announced it was considering some changes to the initial tuition schedule it had established […]
Board considers feedback from families “In November, when the Affton Board of Education settled on a tuition schedule that would allow it to recapture the start-up costs of the Early Childhood Education Center opening next fall, a few factors apparently were overlooked. The board and administrators plan to correct those oversights by adjusting fees that […]
In 2009-2010 our local school district went through an extensive process engaging 44 members of the community in building a Comprehensive School Improvement Plan(CSIP). This process, required for accreditation, can either be an investment, creating a substantive and useful tool as it was for us, or simply another bureaucratic pile of paper sitting on a shelf. What […]