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 […]
I just had the pleasure of sitting in on the Sunday Service at August Gate church. I put a new sound system into their building this week, and wanted to be there for the first service. It was a great opportunity to see community being lived out by really wonderful, committed people with a united […]
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 […]
I have always been a resolution snob. I was absolutely spoiled in college using the NeXT hi-resolution grayscale displays and I have not tolerated a standard XGA screen since. My last three laptops were a Thinkpad (1600×1200), Dell (1920×1080), and my current Zenbook (1600×900). I have really felt a little cramped on my Zen but […]
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 […]