Here's your roundup of top stories from Patches in Paulding, Bartow, Douglas, Cherokee and Cobb counties for Dec. 28.
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The Cobb County Board of Education also will consider paving a bus parking lot and using most of the SPLOST reserve fund at tonight's meeting.
The Cobb County Board of Education is expected to vote tonight on an administration-backed school calendar rule that would guarantee at least nine months’ notice for calendar changes. The new rule would create a 29-member committee of community members and district employees that would recommend at least two calendar options to the school board. David Banks of East and Northeast Cobb’s Post 5 told Patch he would prefer for the board to receive “one option that I accept or reject.” “The problem with two is that if one is chosen, the other side has conflict—not only on the board, but in the community,” he said. “So why put that out there?” As he stated at the board’s Oct. 12 work session, Banks thinks the calendar rule modification has no …
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Cobb board members discussed adopting a policy with respect to how the school calendar is changed at Wednesday’s meeting.
A proposal to involve a 29-member committee in the school calendar process reopened the divisions on the Cobb County Board of Education and the possibility of more changes. After the Cobb County School District’s chief of staff, Cheryl Hungerford, presented Superintendent Michael Hinojosa’s proposal at the board’s monthly work session Wednesday, Post 5 board member David Banks of East and Northeast Cobb pushed to implement the plan immediately. That would allow the school board to consider again changing the 2012-13 schedule, which the board in February switched from a balanced calendar to a more traditional calendar. “Knowing how the public, the teachers feel and a lot of the students feel about this issue, why don’t we do it this year …
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The Cobb County superintendent laid out his plan for setting the next two-year schedule for the school system.
The Cobb County School District has a plan in the works to set the next calendar, Superintendent Michael Hinojosa told a town-hall meeting Tuesday night in Kennesaw. Hinojosa said he intends to form a calendar committee in August and seek community input before bringing a proposal to the Board of Education for the 2013-14 school year. The school board voted 4-3 in February to switch from a balanced calendar starting Aug. 1 to a more traditional calendar starting Aug. 15 this school year. It’s an ongoing controversy Hinojosa inherited when he was sworn in as the system’s superintendent in July. The previous administration under Superintendent Fred Sanderson did not take sides on the calendar, but Hinojosa said he will make a recommendation …
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